quotations about diamonds
With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather's weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.
HENRY JAMES
Watch and Ward
Why do people like these things? They're just shiny rocks.
ROSA DIAZ
"The Swedes", Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Diamonds are forever, they are all I need to please me
They can stimulate and tease me
They won't leave in the night
I've no fear that they might desert me
SHIRLEY BASSEY
"Diamonds Are Forever"
A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.
SHELLY CRANE
The Other Side of Gravity
Wit must be foiled by wit, cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Double-Dealer
Diamonds cut diamonds.
TAMIL
attributed, Day's Collacon
For millions of workers, gold and diamond mining is an important source of income. But the conditions under which gold and diamonds are mined can be brutal. Children have been injured and killed when working in small-scale gold or diamond mining pits. Indigenous peoples and other local residents near mines have been forcibly displaced. In war, civilians have suffered enormously as abusive armed groups have enriched themselves by exploiting gold and diamonds. Mines have polluted waterways and soil with toxic chemicals, harming the health and livelihoods of whole communities.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
"The Hidden Cost of Jewelry", February 8, 2018
And a heart became a desert in the wink of an eye
Once there was loving, once there was trust
Once it was honest and open and just
Our love was a diamond that grew between us
But time can turn even diamonds to dust
DON WILLIAMS
"Diamonds to Dust", True Love
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah
Follow her down to a bridge by the fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
THE BEATLES
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Diamonds may be sweet
But to me they just bring on cold feet
SHERYL CROW
"Diamond Ring", Detours
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles.
THOMAS GUTHRIE
Man and the Gospel
Oh I know you love me
I got a diamond diamond in my pocket
BETTER THAN EZRA
"Diamond in My Pocket", All Together Now
Candies come, flowers come, furs come, but such ephemeral gifts fail to satisfy a woman's psychological craving for a renewal of the romance.
N. W. AYER
"Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond"
When you hold me, I'm alive
We're like diamonds in the sky
At first sight I felt the energy of sun rays
I saw the life inside your eyes
RIHANNA
"Diamonds Slowed"
Diamonds may have been a girl’s best friend in an era when a woman's only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.
GRACE BARUCH
Life Prints
No pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLE
attributed, Diamonds: A Girl's Best Friend