Diamonds cut diamonds. [ Proverb ]
Diamonds are best plain set. [ Rolle ]
Gold and diamonds are not riches. [ John Ruskin ]
To hide true worth from public view,
Is burying diamonds in their mine,
All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;
But all that is gold ought to shine. [ Bishop ]
My, crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. [ Shakespeare ]
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes.
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. [ Bailey ]
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Diamonds are not only dug for, but sometimes worn by slaves! [ Richter ]
Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. [ D'Houdetot ]
The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyere ]
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. [ Juvenal ]
After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyère ]
Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre. [ Locke ]
Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. [ Laboulaye ]
The little and short sayings of nice and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. [ Tillotson ]
Up, up, fair bride! and call thy stars from out their several boxes; take thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make thyself a constellation of them all. [ Donne ]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]