--- title: "4 Bells Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "4 Bells quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Bells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/charles-dickens-34_change_yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me_48750.jpg" --- > [“Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me-sorrowfully-of-change-in/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/charles-dickens-34_change_yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me_48750.jpg) > [“The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-rooks-were-sailing-about-the-cathedral-towers-and-the-towers/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ce/charles-dickens-34_bells_the-rooks-were-sailing-about-the-cathedr_395335.jpg) > [A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-modest-ring-at-the-bell-at-length-allayed-her-fears-and-miss-benton/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/962/charles-dickens-34_appearance_a-modest-ring-at-the-bell-at-length-alla_2193916.jpg) > [At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/at-the-great-iron-gate-of-the-churchyard-he-stopped-and-looked-in-he/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/charles-dickens-34_bells_at-the-great-iron-gate-of-the-churchyard_2496625.jpg) ## Other authors on Bells - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-sylvia-plath-88486.jpg) Sylvia Plath 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/sylvia-plath/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-herbert-37751.jpg) George Herbert 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/george-herbert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-ward-beecher-41729.jpg) Henry Ward Beecher 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/henry-ward-beecher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-lord-tennyson-11317.jpg) Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/alfred-lord-tennyson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-neruda-73079.jpg) Pablo Neruda 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/pablo-neruda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-taylor-gatto-52360.jpg) John Taylor Gatto 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/john-taylor-gatto/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-donne-51262.jpg) John Donne 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/john-donne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-41726.jpg) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edgar-allan-poe-31442.jpg) Edgar Allan Poe 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/edgar-allan-poe/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174.jpg) Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/) ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bells Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora's youth; and of the many, never old, who had lived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells had hummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging up within, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves in air, as circles do in water.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me-sorrowfully-of-change-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/charles-dickens-34_change_yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me_48750.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/charles-dickens-34_change_yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me_48750.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/charles-dickens-34_change_yet-the-bells-when-they-sounded-told-me_48750.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air as if there were no such thing as change on earth. 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