To saya man is fallen in love,öor that he is deeply in love,öor up to the ears in love,öand sometimes even over head and ears in it,öcarries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:öthis is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,öI hold to be damnable and heretical:öand so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,ömy uncleToby fell into it.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.6, ch.37.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Brobdingnag', ch.7.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practising leadershipöyou are practising followship.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  US TV interview, 5 Mar.

As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Orley Farm, ch.22.

There was a heated division of opinion in the lobbies during the interval but a small conservative majority took the view that it might be as well to remain in the theatre.

-Tynan, Kenneth
  Reviewing the play The Glorious Days.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  A Room of One's Own, ch.3.