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Quotes About Jewels

Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.
~ Rege-Jean Page
Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
~ R.L. LaFevers
It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time
~ Joseph Conrad
and all other modern inventions came? Your imagination is the treasure house of infinity, which releases to you all the precious jewels of music, art, poetry, and inventions.
~ Joseph Murphy
Mariotta listened to it all, sitting judicially in a whirl of velvet with all the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
And it's so pretty and secluded, went on Mrs. Digby, with these glorious rhododendrons. Look how pretty they are, all sprayed with the water--like fairy jewels--and the rustic seat against those dark cypresses at the back. Really Italian. And the scent of the lilac is so marvellous! Mr. Spiller knew that the cypresses were, in fact, yews, but he did not correct her. A little ignorance was becoming in a woman.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
~ Charles Perrault
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong." But she is not using her strengths and abilities to compete with her husband. She is not driven by an identity crisis or treating her marriage as a matter of sexual politics. She is too mature for that. She is giving herself away to her husband, her family, and her community with wholehearted selflessness. A woman of this quality is rare: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~ Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.
~ Tukaram
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .
~ Charles Dickens
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
~ George Croly
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~ Thomas Carlyle
grubby contemporaries in the West, stumbling around in their codpieces, the silk-clad Mughals, dripping in jewels, were the living embodiment of wealth and power – a meaning that has remained impregnated in the word 'mogul
~ William Dalrymple
And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
Health and an able body are two jewels.
~ Dario Fo
the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
The Sky A Silver the sky a silver dissonance by the correct fingers of April resolved into a clutter of trite jewels now like a moth with stumbling wings flutters and flops along the grass collides with trees and houses and finally, butts into the river
~ E.E. Cummings
the countless unnamed jewels of Mars
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am like my father—witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths—the trees, the flowers, the sward—all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it?
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
they were beginning to stream across like strings of jewels flung from another planet
~ Alexander Key
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever...
~ Alfred