Quotes About Rubies

Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.

Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.

I have experimented with semi-precious stones because it's more fun and affordable too. Then, I have the colourful rubies, Columbian emeralds and a mix of everything.

You're the sister who spits out toads and snakes. I'm the sister who spits out rubies and diamonds.

scarab. It's made of silver, tarnished at the moment, and adorned with some of the finest sapphires, rubies, and emeralds

turquoise-and-green cloth that cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate confection of twists, curls and coils. Her face, as intricately lined as a map, was powdered white and finished with bold scarlet lipstick. In her lap, her hands were a cluster of rubies, emeralds and white, bony knuckles; only her nails, unvarnished, cut short and square like my own, struck an incongruous note.

Erect, isolated, having at her side her husband and myself, the Duchesse stood on the left of the staircase, already wrapped in her Tiepolo cloak, the collar fastened by the clasp of rubies, being devoured by the eyes of women and of men seeking to chance upon the secret of her elegance and her beauty.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10

Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.