Diamond Quotes

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West

Worry, Interest, Number

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

Self, Hard, Three

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

Adversity, Heaven, Dust

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Sunrise, Lost, Two

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo

Nature, Woman, Made

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David

Hair, Anyone, Head

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

Strong, Point, Weak

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

Soul, Body, Appear

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

Fool, Hand, Fine

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

Human, Soul, Might

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Sunrise, Two, Between

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
Shahrukh Khan

Husband, Father, Fail

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
Loretta Lynn

Loved, Hold, Outside

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
Lena Dunham

Family, Great, Husband

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
Thomas Guthrie

Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
Jason Aldean

Else, Song, Artist

I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
Fergie

Love, Leave, Refreshed

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.
Kenneth Edmonds

Find, Times, Rough

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey

Smart, Husband, Sexy

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'
Chris Evans

Love, Movies, Big

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'
Frank Miller

Great, Character, Writing

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
Robert Wyatt

Sorry, Done, Song

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
Queen Elizabeth II

Experience, Happy, Together

I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.
ASAP Rocky

Against, Gold, Wear

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
Georgina Chapman

Home, Wedding, Hair

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger

Mind, Mental, Proverbs

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
Richard Burton

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.
Claudia Black

Black, Down, Storm

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