mob quotes

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

- Daniel Defoe
The True-Born Englishman, pt.1, l.132^3.

'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?'suggested Mr Snodgrass.'Shout with the largest,'replied Mr Pickwick.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.13.

   It is clear that both England and America are now to be governed by the mob.

- George Grenville
  On the repeal of the Stamp  Act,  Jul.

America is now wholly given over to a dd mob of scribbling women.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Quoted in Caroline Ticknor Hawthorne and His Publisher (1913).

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Odes, bk.3, no.1, l.1^4 (translated by G  Williams).

A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'Rules for the Conduct of Newspaper Editors', in The Examiner, 6 Mar.

No tin hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibblebabbling mob of blackguarding and corporation- paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, ordivert its purposetoplay itsnatural and rational part in the development of the economic, political, and social life of our nation.

-John L(lewellyn) Lewis
   Address, 3 Sep. Recalled on his death11  Jun1969.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mobwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'

- Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands Stanley
  How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa.