Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“What a mind that woman must have!" he said with admiration. It was the hushed tone of a jeweller studying the largest and finest…

— Frances Hardinge

“But there was something in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Diamonds were everything I hoped to be; beautiful, yet containing unimaginable strength.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“He was not a man to hide his emotions and if tested, his blue eyes would darken, gleaming like unfathomable gems.”

— Teresa Medeiros

“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“We merely looked...at giant diamonds.”

— Alice Clayton

“Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ...…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it made it…

— Philip Reeve

“He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”

— Solange nicole

“Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?”

— Marcus Aurelius