--- title: "3 Bells Quotes By Thomas Hood" description: "3 Bells quotes by Thomas Hood. Plus more from Thomas Hood and more Bells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png" --- > [Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-village-bells-when-on-the/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png) > [Bells are musics laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/bells-are-musics-laughter/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d6/thomas-hood-7160_bells_bells-are-musics-laughter-2473195_2473195.png) > [While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy-to-the-tune-of-the-bells/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/thomas-hood-7160_able_while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy_2628274.png) ## 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 Thomas Hood > [Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/peace-and-rest-at-length-have-come-all-the-day-s-long-toil-is-past/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/he-lies-like-a-hedgehog-rolled-up-the-wrong-way-tormenting-himself/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/i-love-thee-i-love-thee-tis-all-that-i-can-say-it-is-my-vision-in-the/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/there-are-three-things-which-the-public-will-always-clamour-for/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/half-of-the-failures-in-life-come-from-pulling-one-s-horse-when-he-is/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/what-is-mind-no-matter-what-is-matter-never-mind-what-is-the-soul-it/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/what-joy-have-i-in-june-s-return-my-feet-are-parched-my-eyeballs-burn/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/it-was-not-in-the-winter-our-loving-lot-was-cast-it-was-the-time-of/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/when-he-is-forsaken-withered-and-shaken-what-can-an-old-man-do-but-die/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/well-for-the-drones-of-the-social-hive-that-there-are-bees-of-an/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/i-saw-old-autumn-in-the-misty-morn-stand-shadowless-like-silence/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [Comfort and indolence are cronies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/comfort-and-indolence-are-cronies/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/mother-of-light-how-fairly-dost-thou-go-over-those-hoary-crests/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/sweet-are-the-little-brooks-that-run-o-er-pebbles-glancing-in-the-sun/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) > [How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/how-widely-its-agencies-vary-to-save-to-ruin-to-curse-to-bless-as/) [Thomas Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/thomas-hood/#itemlist", "name": "3 Bells Quotes By Thomas Hood", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-village-bells-when-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!” — Thomas Hood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bells are musics laughter.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/bells-are-musics-laughter/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d6/thomas-hood-7160_bells_bells-are-musics-laughter-2473195_2473195.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d6/thomas-hood-7160_bells_bells-are-musics-laughter-2473195_2473195.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d6/thomas-hood-7160_bells_bells-are-musics-laughter-2473195_2473195.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bells are musics laughter.” — Thomas Hood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hood/while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy-to-the-tune-of-the-bells/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/thomas-hood-7160_able_while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy_2628274.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/thomas-hood-7160_able_while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy_2628274.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d08/thomas-hood-7160_able_while-the-steeples-are-loud-in-their-joy_2628274.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one…” — Thomas Hood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/thomas-hood/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/thomas-hood/", "name": "Bells Quotes by Thomas Hood", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bells/thomas-hood/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/thomas-hood-7160_air_dear-bells-how-sweet-the-sound-of-villag_665980.png" }, "description": "3 Bells quotes by Thomas Hood. 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