Jewels Quotes

• Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewelry, Moments, Useful Life

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• She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

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• The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

  Grace Kelly

  Queens, Jewelry Boxes, Pearls

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• Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Shining, Looks, World

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• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Husband

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• Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

  Sonja Henie

  Wrinkles, People, Mind

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• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Mean, Shoes, Would Be

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• Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

  Sarah Phillips

  Life, Fashion, Wrinkles

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• 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

  Monsters, Canvas, Sometimes

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• I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Should Have, Faces

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• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Light, Color, Forever

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• If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
  like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Islands, Receiving Love, Gift Giving

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• Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

  Thomas Moore

  Hands, Gold, Jewelry

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Rich and rare were the gems she wore'

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Marriage, Pain

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Opal, Tailors

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• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Jim Ryun

  Army, America, United States

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Unseen

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

  George Eliot

  Color, Jewelry, Speak

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

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• It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Fur, Wit

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• Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Python, Oxford, Two

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• The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
  [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  World, Pearls, Next

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

  Lord Chesterfield

  World, Way, Jewelry

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.85, Oxford University Press

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• Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

  Agnes of Rome

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

  Christian Lacroix

  Fashion, Choices, Jewelry

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