Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The Bible - among other books is as a diamond among precious stones. — John Stoughton Copy Share Image
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
It will be full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls!-Immortal souls, saved souls that love… — David Berg Copy Share Image
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones -… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the… — Lily Blake Copy Share Image
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not… — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Nothing is richer than precious stones and than gold; nothing is finer than adamant, nothing nobler than the blood of kings; nothing… — Jean Passerat Copy Share Image
I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
“A beggar came to an emperor’s palace. The emperor was just in the garden so he heard the beggar. The man on… — Osho Copy Share Image
“How to describe the woman? Silky hair, velvety lips. No, it won’t do, I’m using fabrics, constructing a doll. How about coppery… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted. I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm.… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The queen gazes into the garden. There, near the trees, is a fountain; it is white in the darkness and tall, tall… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Like I said, yeh’d be mad ter try an’ rob it,” said Hagrid. A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
