DIAMOND QUOTES II

quotations about diamonds

Diamonds quote

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

MALCOLM S. FORBES

attributed, The Quotable Billionaire


A diamond, incarcerated in its subterraneous prison, rough and unpolished, differs not from a common stone.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


A diamond on a dunghill is a precious diamond still.

AMERICAN PROVERB


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


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


At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

ABERJHANI

Journey Through the Power of the Rainbow


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


Diamonds are trumps in the game of hearts.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs


A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

CHINESE PROVERB


Diamonds are forever, sparkling round my little finger
Unlike men, the diamonds linger

SHIRLEY BASSEY

"Diamonds Are Forever"


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


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


Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

KHALIL GIBRAN

Sand and Foam


It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator


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


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


It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings.

JUDITH MARTIN

Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior


She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

ANGELA CARTER

Nights at the Circus


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


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