Able Quote by Thomas Hood

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 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

“Yet, the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet, the ear distinctly tells, In…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

Bells are musics laughter.

— Thomas Hood

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the…

— Thomas Nashe

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

— Charles Lamb

Ring the bells that still can ring.

— Leonard Cohen

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing.…

— Harper Fox

See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'!

— Frank Lebby Stanton

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow