Addresses Quote by A. N. Wilson

Bells are musics laughter.

— Thomas Hood

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

— Charles Lamb

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it…

— Peter Medawar

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

— Thomas Beecham

“From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the uproar of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I…

— Charles Lamb

“The crowd listened all the more closely for having waited and despaired, especially since this time the bells, ringing softly, demanded a deeper hush.…

— Georges Rodenbach

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

— Charlemagne Palestine

“When a waggon with a train of beautiful horses, furnished with red trappings and clear-sounding bells came by us with its music, I believe…

— Charles Dickens

Bells, the poor man's only music.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Why did the sheep bells of the Falkland Islands ring louder than the church bells of Jerusalem?”

— Hussein bin Talal

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

— Natalia Ginzburg