Quotes and Sayings about Pearls

"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."
- William R. Alger
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"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Pearls, Pleasure)

"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Judgment, Pearls, Sound, World)

"He who would search for pearls must dive below."
- John Dryden
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"I am not gay, I just like pearls."
- Julian Eltinge
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"I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: Pearls, Songs)

"The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Life, Anarchy, Pearls, Perfection, Race)

"Pearls mean tears."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: Pearls, Tears)

"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Kindness, Pearls, sayings, Witty, Word)

"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
- Paul Scofield
(Related: Painting, Pearls)

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."
- Gertrude Stein
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