Alarm Sounded

Famous quotes containing the words alarm and/or sounded:

“Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly
Were dead and damned, there sounded ‘War is done!’
One morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,
‘Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,
And in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?’”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)