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Quotes About Diamonds

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
~ Mae West
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
~ Mae West
The ship started a school of fliers that skipped along the wave tops like shining silver coins. These are the ghosts of treasures ost at sea, the cook went on, the murder things, emeralds and diamonds and gold; the sins of men, committed for them, stick to them and make them haunt the ocean. Ah! It's a poor thing if a sailor will not make a grand tale about it. Henry pointed to a great tortoise asleep on the surface. And what is the tale of the turtles? He asked. Nothing; only food...
~ John Steinbeck
If all the dew were diamonds...we would be very rich. We would be drunk all our lives.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
~ Terry Pratchett
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
~ Peter Marshall
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
~ Joan Rivers
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".
~ Tommy Cooper
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
~ Joan Rivers
Bergé's yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened, massive diamonds groaned scornfully in their settings. It was a stationary riot.
~ Unknown
Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.
~ Matt Haig
She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.
~ Matt Haig
The mourning cloak caterpillar is black with white speckles and a row of red diamonds on its back with black bristles. It has shiny eyes. It grows about as long as your
~ Unknown
What is it?" "Something with which to penetrate you." "But you can penetrate me now. As often as you like." "Doesn't mean we shouldn't explore other options." "Hmm," I said. "Soooo instead of diamonds or shoes, you got me a . . ." I stared at him, and waited for him to reveal the nature of his present. He grinned. "Buzz, buzz, Ellie Bee.
~ Michele Bardsley
Blood diamonds, she thought. That's exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.
~ Unknown
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
~ Minnie Driver
Deeds are like diamonds, sins are like filth & forgiveness is a blessing that's why we see roses grow beautiful from dirt.
~ Unknown
for a ring which Lady Grizel had lost – her engagement ring – star sapphire and diamonds.
~ Unknown
Do you have infrared vision?" Interest glittered on his face. Venom smiled, the curious reaction a far preferable one to quivering fear or horror. "You'll have to court me with roses and diamonds before asking such intimate questions." Vivek snorted. "It's just like working for the Guild--place is full of smartasses.
~ Nalini Singh
Maybe she'd be better suited to a glittering palace, to a great and terrible queen whose eyes are as pale as diamonds, who drinks bloodred wine, and trails a cloak of dark glamour.
~ Nicola Griffith
Because of pressure, there are diamonds.
~ Unknown
The motives of the invasion were both economic and religious. The Martians sought water and vegetable matter; but they came also in a crusading spirit, to "liberate" the terrestrial diamonds.
~ Olaf Stapledon