Jangling Quotes
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No, this vile world and I have long been jangling, And cannot part on
better terms than now, When only men like
thee are fit to live in't.
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More Jangling Quotes
I say, thou mad March hare,I wonder how ye dareOpen your jangling jawsTo preach in any clause,Like prating popping daws,Against her excellence,Against her reverence,Against her pre-eminence,Against her magnificence,That never did offence.
john skelton— Replication Against Certain Young Scholars (date unknown, but certainly after 1523, generally considered to be among Skelton's final works), a criticism of heretical thought among the young men then attending universities, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.
edith sitwell— "Clowns' Houses"
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being.' God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 559. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
