Diamond Quotes and Sayings
Below is a list of famous and lesser-known quotes and sayings concerning diamonds.
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
Swami Prabhupada
So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos, authoress of the 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Big girls need big diamonds.
Elizabeth Taylor
This diamond has so many carats, it's almost a turnip.
Richard Burton
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Title of a song written by Leo Robin and Jule Styne, first sung by Carol Channing in the 1949 broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and later by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 movie version of the story
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Old Chinese Proverb
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself!
Mae West
A diamond is forever.
De Beers advertising slogan, thought up in 1947
Diamonds are forever.
Title of the 1971 James Bond film and variant of De Beers' slogan “A diamond is forever”
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy!
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
Henry Kissinger
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond!
Mae West