Diamond Quotes · Page 6

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone~

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.”

— Jodi Picoult

Wasn't nobody wearing diamond necklaces until Jay-Z jumped out there with them.

— Pimp C

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

— Anonymous

Remember: Pressure is what turns Coal into DIAMONDS :)

— Nishan Panwar

“Diamonds are forever. Magic not so much.”

— Chloe Neill

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

— Terry Pratchett

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

— Alli Simpson

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each…

— Lucy Larcom

All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll…

— Mindy McCready

“Diamond being the toughest thing on the face of earth is still the most prettiest object; pretty is not always being honeyed.”

— Priyansh Shah

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of…

— Lord Chesterfield

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

— Pablo Neruda

“If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ass, and come collect a big,…

— M. leighton

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have…

— Lou Reed

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

— Anonymous

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to…

— Bat for Lashes

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great…

— Henry David Thoreau

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes…

— Tommy Cooper

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the…

— Joseph Conrad

Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a…

— J.R. Ward

I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't…

— Kerstin Gier

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're…

— Anne Rice

It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond…

— Michelle Kwan

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the…

— Francis Bacon

Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven…

— Hans Christian Andersen

If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who…

— Galileo Galilei

Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me…

— Grete Waitz

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If I happened to find a diamond one day, I would call it Dagny, because the very sound of your name thrills…

— Knut Hamsun

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow…

— Carlo Collodi

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With…

— Jack Nicklaus

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

— Eartha Kitt

See them thangs shinin' sparkin' like a diamond

— Juicy J

Even the most beautiful diamond looks like a rock, hanging from the neck of a hog.

— Shadrach Peplowski

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

— Malala Yousafzai

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

— Oscar de la Renta

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

— Isaac Newton

So throw your diamonds in the sky, we'll stay gold forever?

— Bring Me The Horizon