DIAMOND QUOTES II
quotations about diamonds
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
ABERJHANI
Journey Through the Power of the Rainbow
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
MALCOLM S. FORBES
attributed, The Quotable Billionaire
A diamond on a dunghill is a precious diamond still.
AMERICAN PROVERB
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
RICHARD BURTON
remark about a diamond weighing 69.4 carats that he gifted to Elizabeth Taylor on her fortieth birthday, which she later sold, after her divorce, for $5 million to fund a hospital in Botswana, Industrial Diamond Review, 1990
A diamond, incarcerated in its subterraneous prison, rough and unpolished, differs not from a common stone.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Diamonds on me shining when you see 'em, boom bing
Diamonds on me shining when it's DM, boom bing bing
Diamonds on me dancing like it's Breezy over Eazy
I can buy a hundred easy, I just got a call from Jeezy
2 CHAINZ
"Diamonds Talkin Back", Hibachi for Lunch
Diamonds are forever, sparkling round my little finger
Unlike men, the diamonds linger
SHIRLEY BASSEY
"Diamonds Are Forever"
Diamonds are trumps in the game of hearts.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Among all the stones that our world's fancy holds precious, the diamond stands preeminent. The diamonds that gleamed with such fire in an idol's eye before the rising of the Star of Bethlehem may be sparkling today with more dazzling radiance in the crown of an emperor.
J. WILLARD HERSHEY
The Book of Diamonds
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
CHINESE PROVERB
Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY
"Murray has found his little diamond", Chicago Tribune, April 14, 2006
It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
The Great Infidels
We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.
KARL MARX
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
KHALIL GIBRAN
Sand and Foam
The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation.
LEWIS VERTOMAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Is not a diamond that flashes all its colours into the heart of a poet as useful as the diamond with which the glazier divides the sheet of glass into panes of our windows?
GEORGE MACDONALD
The History of Gutta-Percha Willie
She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.
ANGELA CARTER
Nights at the Circus
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings.
JUDITH MARTIN
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.
C. JoyBell C.
attributed, goodreads