Rough Diamond Quotes
- 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
- N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful… — Eric Hobsbawm
- The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. — Daniel Defoe