Bells Quote by Alice Meynell

“What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle Can patter…

— Wilfred Owen

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear…

— A. E. Housman

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

“But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes,…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“Sweetened by a tower of Norman stone, the bells of Lent, carrying on their ancient sides the names of saints and merchants, squires and…

— Peter Maughan

“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…

— Joseph Conrad

“With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“This day came in his Majestie Charles the 2d to London after a sad, & long Exile, and Calamitous Suffering both of the King…

— John Evelyn

“And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you, climb—on the…

— Victor Hugo

“Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was…

— Emily Brontë