Precious Gemstones Quotes

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

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

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.