“He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise”
William Shakespeare
“When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.”
Bible
“The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn”
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
Thomas Mann
“The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility”
Charles Lamb
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.”
John Keats
