Creative Sparkles: Sparkling Diamonds, Jewelry & Quotations

 

A Month of Diamond Quotes
 

 

1
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Thomas Carlyle
 
2
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
- William R. Alger
 
3
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
 
4
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
 
5
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
 
6
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
- Benjamin Disraeli
 
7
When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.
- Brock Osweiler
 
8
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- Benjamin Franklin
 
9
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
- John Weitz
 
10
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
- Larry David
 
11
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
- Horace Mann
 
12
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
 
13
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
- George Savile
 
14
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
- Ethel Merman
 
15
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
- Barry Cornwall
 
16
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
- Samuel Butler
 
17
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
- Jean de la Bruyere
 
18
Good memories are lost jewels.
- Paul Valery
 
19
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
- Benjamin Disraeli
 
20
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
 
21
O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
- Isaac Newton
 
22
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
- Andre Maurois
 
23
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
 
24
Diamonds are my service stripes.
- Mae West
 
25
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- Benjamin Franklin
 
26
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
- John Weitz
 
27
Jewels five-words long / That on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 
28
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
 
29
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
- Peter Marshall
 
30
Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.
- Armie Hammer
 
31
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
 
 

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