The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Connolly Cyril 1903-1974
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Coward Noёl 1899-1973
(attributed - of the retreat from Dunkirk)
The noise, my dear! And the people!
Crabbe George 1754-1832
Tales of the Hall
Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till make a noise.
Knox Ronald 1888-1957
(definition of a baby, attributed)
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Malory Sir Thomas d.1471
Le Morte D'Arthur
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.
Milton John 1608-1674
‘Il Penseroso'
Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Milton John 1608-1674
Sonnet 12"I did but prompt the age"
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos,asses,apes,and dogs.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
Miscellanies
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less
they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Pushkin Alexander 1799-1837
‘Remembrances'
When trade and traffic and all the noise of town
Is dimmed, and on the streets and squares
The filmy curtain of the night sinks down
With sleep, the recompense of cares,
To me the darkness brings not sleep nor rest.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.