60 Knell Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous knell quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational knell quotes. Hopefully, these knell quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your knell knowledge!
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Famous Knell Quotes
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. — George Herbert
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. — Plautus
The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon. — American Proverbs
Death is the final wake-up call. — Doug Horton
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — W. H. Auden
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. — Colin Meloy
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime! — Charles Lamb
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. — Danish Proverbs
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky — John Dryden
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. — Wilfred Owen
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells
Short Knell Quotes
- Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell. — David Ogilvy
- Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. — Elizabeth Fishel
- Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. — Edward Young
- By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. — William Collins
- A moment's thought is passion's passing knell. — John Keats
- In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell — Strobe Talbott
- Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. — Robert Browning
- The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. — Jeff Bezos
- Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell. — Emily Dickinson
People Writing About Knell
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Charles Lamb |
262 | 1300 |
 John Donne |
241 | 1065 |
 George Herbert |
1254 | 2130 |
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
699 | 7457 |
 Plautus |
265 | 1583 |
 American Proverbs |
195 | 308 |
More Knell Quotes
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. — Theodore Roosevelt
The death knell for silver's monetary role was the end of the Franco-Prussian war, when Germany extracted an indemnity of £200 million in gold from France and used it to switch to a gold standard. With Germany now joining Britain, France, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and others on a gold standard, the monetary pendulum had swung decisively in favor of gold, leading to individuals and nations worldwide who used silver to witness a progressive loss of their purchasing power and a stronger incentive to shift to gold. India finally switched from silver to gold in 1898, while China and Hong Kong were the last economies in the world to abandon the silver standard in 1935. — Saifedean Ammous
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. — Bernard Ramm
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough. — Charles Spurgeon
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that does fade, But does suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell. — William Shakespeare
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. — James Shirley
The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It means the US can't borrow with 'exorbitant privilege' anymore, and it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral. — Addison Wiggin
I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be your best work, and that's necessary. I think in this business, you really have to be forward-looking the whole time. I think nostalgia is sort of the death knell for any artist. — Cillian Murphy
I'm not convinced that Trump's administration is a death knell for feminism. I think it could be the kind of kick in the pants that we need in order to come back together and see ourselves in the same fight. — Sarah Treem
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change. — Noam Chomsky
The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. — Karl Marx
The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. — Edward Young
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! — Lord Byron
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible! — Allen Tate
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. — William Shakespeare
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. — Fitz-Greene Halleck
Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight. — Dan Simmons
Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food. — Julia Child
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born. — Yanis Varoufakis
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore. — Garrison Keillor
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes. — Julia Child
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — Zygmunt Bauman
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere. — Emma Goldman
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