Diamond Quotes
716 quotes by 537 authors
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their…
— Theodore Dreiser
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
— Rick Warren
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
— Mae West
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No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
— Mae West
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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
— Anne Sexton
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
— Lord Chesterfield
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no…
— Unknown Author
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
— B. C. Forbes
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If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
— John Flavel
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A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
— Unknown Author
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I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
— Lana Del Rey
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty...
— John Townsend Trowbridge
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things…
— Grete Waitz
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only…
— Joseph Joubert
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In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even,…
— Thomas Guthrie
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There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of…
— Andrew Harvey
Who Wrote These Diamond Quotes
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