Anna Magnani Quotes

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

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?

Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want