Diamonds in Literature and Poetry
Diamonds have taken an important space in our ideas and dreams of celebration, enjoyment, expression of love and happiness. There are famous and popular quotes about or referencing diamonds. Some that you may have heard or read and other that you may not have.

Diamonds have lured and fascinated us for centuries and during the history this lure and fascination has prompted many including some famous personalities utter and or write some interesting quotes. The attraction towards this most fascinating gem continues..  Read below and enjoy..

Orchards Smiling through departed leaves, Like diamond sapphires in evening sun.  -  Alex Doherty

Lost... somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes; no reward is offered, for they are gone forever.   -  Unkown

A Diamond in the Rough - An unpolished or inexperienced person who shows promise.  - Unkown

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds A diamond is rough and hard to the touch It's dark there, but full of diamonds  -  Arthur Miller

O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the damage thou hast done" (or alternatively "O Diamond, Diamond, how little knowest thou the mischief thou hast done  - Sir Isaac Newton

(Diamond was Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog, which, by upsetting a candle, set fire to manuscripts containing his notes on experiments conducted over a course of twenty years. According to one account, Newton is said to have exclaimed)

Finding truth - Finding love These diamonds sparkle from lights above.  -  Lorraine Venner

Diamonds are radiant white, They shine like stars in the night.   -  Shay Jones

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.  -  Jane Taylor

And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun...   -  Sara Teasdale

When Diamonds are a Legend, And Diadems a Tale I brooch and earrings for myself, Do sow, and raise for sale And tho' I'm scarce accounted, My art, a Summer Day - had patrons Once - it was a Queen And once - a Butterfly.  -  Emily Dickinson

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond!  -  Mae West

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles!  -  Sonja Henie

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy!  - Author Unkown

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself!  -  Mae West

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.  - Anita Loos

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.  -  Zsa Zsa Gabor

If God wanted us to bend over head, put diamonds on the floor!  -  Joan Rivers

Big girls need big diamonds.  -  Elizabeth Taylor

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.  -  Richard Burton

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.  -  Henry Kissinger

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.  -  Old Chinese Proverb / quotation

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear  -  Daniel Defoe

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.  -  Mary McLeod Bethune

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.  -  William J. H. Boetcker

Ill buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright.  -  Beatles - from their song Can't buy me love.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.  -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all  -  Mark Twain

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship, Has worth beyond compare.  -  Author Unknown

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.  -  William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Romans believed that diamonds brought courage and bravery during battle. Jewish high priests used diamonds to decide the innocence or guilt of the accused: A stone held before a guilty person dulled and darkened; a stone held before an innocent person glowed with increased brilliance. The Hindus believed that this brilliant gem was created when....

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