Diamond Quote by William Congreve Download Open image “Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.” — William Congreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diamond Wit
“A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel.” — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at the time.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. — Geoffrey Bocca Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo” — william congreve Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
“I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after… — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
