Jewelry Quotes - Page 4

• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, People, Crowns

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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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• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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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

  Jewels, Mind, Opal

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• My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

  Kate Reardon

  Favourite, Favourite Things, Wardrobe

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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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, Jewels, Sea

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

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• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Engagement, Innocent

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

  Robert Herrick

  Rubies, Lips, Grew

  Robert Herrick, J. N., John NOTT (M.D., of Bristol.) (1810). “Select Poems from the Hesperides, ... with ... remarks by J. N[ott], etc”, p.13

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• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Advice, Literature

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

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• If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Management, Knows

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• I feel naked without jewelry.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Naked, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

  Jon Hamm

  Summer, Dad, Winter

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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• These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Advice, Mind

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• Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, Loss, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde”

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• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  Mae West

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Inspire, Found

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Jewels, Opal, Pearls

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.55, Library of America

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• The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Wool, Appearance

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• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Inspiring, Jewels, Mind

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Memorable, Liberty

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

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