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Quotes About Opals

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.
~ Denise Levertov
Mysterious opals contain the wonders of the skies — sparkling rainbows, fireworks and lightning, shifting and moving in their depths.
~ Author Unknown
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold.
~ Oscar Wilde
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
~ Oscar Wilde
Palm reached up to touch the glowing fire opals in her ears. "These? But they were a gift from —" "I know," said her sister. "They're much too expensive for you to afford on your
~ Tui T. Sutherland
His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. "Why can't you see yourself as I see you?" -Jack to Amanda
~ Lisa Kleypas
In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
~ Kerry Greenwood
In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.
~ Victoria Finlay
They're like people, no two alike. That's one of the marvels of the universe… all those people… all those opals… and not two exactly alike.
~ Unknown