DIAMOND QUOTES

quotations about diamonds

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It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

DOLLY PARTON

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Diamonds are best plain set.

ROLLE

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We take the tradition of a diamond engagement ring for granted, as if it were as old as marriage itself. It's not. In fact, it's only about as old as the microwave oven.

AJA RADEN

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A crush of diamonds! Diamonds everywhere!
Shattered and sown, like seed beside the way,
The sparkle of their splendor mocks the day!
A thousand rainbows, rent from summer air,
Imprisoned, drape the brown earth cold and bare;
The diamonds flash from every barren spray
The grasses, sheathed in diamonds, mark the way,
And moss-grown eaves imperial diamonds wear.
Broideries of seed-pearl, finely wrought and rare.

MARY R. THORNTON MCABOY

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A diamond is a portion of crystalized carbon. That is what we have all been for so many years admiring; that is what the Greeks call adamas (the unconquerable) that is what Mrs Jones calls "a diamont", and to which all sorts of poets and lovers have likened the prettiest and sweetest, and brightest eyes which ever shone.

J. HAIN FRISWELL

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Diamonds never lie to me
For when love's gone, they'll lustre on

SHIRLEY BASSEY

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A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

PHILIP MASSINGER

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Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.

MINNIE RICHARD SMITH

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I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

G. K. CHESTERTON

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Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

LEO ROBIN

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He who owns this diamond Koh-I-Noor will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can wear it with impunity.

IQBAL LATIF

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Unsurprisingly, in these more eco-aware times, interest in "ethical diamonds" is also growing. Two organisations, Amnesty International and Global Witness, have worked over the past few years to help the jewellery industry: it's a real victory for human rights that it's now illegal to trade in conflict diamonds, and any government trading in diamonds must certify that shipments of uncut diamonds are conflict-free.

SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

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Shall we go to the Diamond Field tonight
Tightrope walkin' in the web of light
Shall we go to the Diamond Field and try
To seek the fortune in their eyes?

PAT BENATAR

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For an item that bases its reputation on its strength and timelessness, diamonds aren't really that durable. Hard, yes: the hardest substance in the mineral family, thanks to their perfect cubic lattice, and more than fifty times harder than the next hardest, sapphires. But hard isn't the same as strong. You can do all kinds of terrible things to them. You can scratch them up in your jewelry box, as long as you have other diamonds; you can actually incinerate them at 1,400 degrees--no joke, they just vanish, not a trace is left behind. Or, if you're like my father, as a curious six-year-old, having heard that diamonds are the hardest substance on the earth, you can take your mother's one and only diamond ring and smash it to dust with a hammer. (It was a trauma from which I'm told she never fully recovered.)

AJA RADEN

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Diamonds are forever.

IAN FLEMING

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If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

JOAN RIVERS

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We made love all day
In our little hideaway
But I blew up our love nest
By making one little request:
Diamond ring

SHERYL CROW

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Big girls need big diamonds.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

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A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond.

EVAN ESAR

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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

ZSA ZSA GABOR

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