Quotes and Sayings about Jewels
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Adversity, Heaven, Jewels)
"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."
- Maurice Chevalier
(Related: Men, Women, Jewels, Quotations, Wit)
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Difference, Memories)
"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
- Ferdowsi
(Related: Jewels)
"I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands."
- Gina Gershon
(Related: Love, Faces, Gifts, Giving, Islands, Jewels, Kids, Light)
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
(Related: Soul, Jewels, Words)
"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Hair, Jewels)
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
- William Morris
(Related: Life, Jewels)
"Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Clothes, Gold, Jewels)
"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"
- Camille Pissarro
(Related: Thought, Fear, Jewels)
"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Beauty, Character, Fortune, Jewels)
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Jewels, Man, Memory, Old)
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Experience, God, Being, Eyes, Jewels, Nerves)