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

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

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

My mum, she loves a bargain hunt. You can't buy her anything expensive. I remember I bought her a diamond bracelet for her birthday. I was being a nice son! She told me to take it back.

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

TRUE FRIENDS ARE OUR GOLD AND DIAMOND SECURED DEPOSITS IN THE STOCK MARKET OF LIFE.

No pain, no creation. No pressure, no diamond.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

Words can be like diamonds or like swords, brightening your life or tearing you down, the final concluded outcome is solely under your control.

It takes Intense Friction for a Nothing-Special Piece of Carbon to be the Diamond that Shines from Within.

Philosophically, Quotes absorb a sea of meaning; whereas, an insightful swimmer swims down into the bottom and fetches visionary diamonds of context, which aspire and inspire the hearts and minds of readers.

"She had the courage of a diamond

"...As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty...

The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer's mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

I don't rock. I diamond.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. Lost trust takes time to rebuild. But with consistency and humility, the diamond can be unearthed again.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Diamonds shine better in the dawn

Do you see my diamond-studded smile and passion-filled eyes? It's because I'm in that stage of my life where I have nothing to prove to anyone. There is no elaborate pretence and no lavish ostentations. Genuineness smoulders in yellow gold, and I carry integrity on my eyelids. I stitch virtue, ornately and intricately, in every feather of my powder silver wings, which thrusts me past the iridescent rainbow where my ambitions soar high amid the dappled blanket of the sky. This is I; the stronger me, the happier me and the empowered me.