(51 quotes found)
“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
“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
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn”
“The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility”
Charles Lamb
“Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.”
John Keats
“So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”
John Bunyan
“He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.”
Aneurin Bevan
“Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task”
“There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!”
Thomas Hardy
