Bells Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Charles Lamb

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Even during the nights, their nights punctuated by unending kisses, they were sometimes irritated by the carillon, which sounded every quarter of an hour…

— Georges Rodenbach

Bells are musics laughter.

— Thomas Hood

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora…

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Charlemagne Palestine

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

— George Herbert

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

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition…

— Henry David Thoreau

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

— Matsuo Basho

“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

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