quotations about diamonds
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH
"Green scene with Sheherazade Goldsmith: Pop the right questions", The Daily Mail, February 7, 2009
It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water.
GALILEO GALILEI
Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems: Ptolemaic & Copernican
To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be.
GARCIAS AB HORTO
attributed, Day's Collacon
The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The Jungle is dark but full of diamonds.
ARTHUR MILLER
Death of a Salesman
Put a diamond in it and bite down!
SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS
"Put a Diamond in it"
Diamonds are forever, hold one up and then caress it
Touch it, stroke it and undress it
I can see ev'ry part, nothing hides in the heart to hurt me
I don't need love, for what good will love do me?
SHIRLEY BASSEY
"Diamonds Are Forever"
Everybody knows
The thing she does to please
Low cut sweaters
With her skirts above her knees
She's a dimestore diamond
Everybody knows
Just where she gets her clothes
A watercolor painting
In a Renoir pose
THE GOSSIP
"Dimestore Diamond", Music for Men
Life keeps throwing me stones
And I keep finding the diamonds
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
A-Z of Happiness
Her long diamond earrings not only caught the sun and blinded you, but jangled and knocked against her cheekbones with a sharp tapping sound.
MIKE CROWL
The Mumbersons and the Blood Secret
From the top of the hill
You can see all the lights of the Diamond Field
The treasure buried in plain sight
Where one man's loss is another man's gain
And no one cares about anything worth caring about
PAT BENATAR
"Diamond Field", Tropico
Diamonds are not only brittle, but they're also quite thermodynamically unstable. Right now, as you read this, every diamond you've ever seen is slowly converting to graphite. The process is just so incredibly slow at room temperature that human beings will never live to see it.
AJA RADEN
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
A properly cut and faceted diamond, no matter what the carat size, has unique properties when it comes to light. Like a prism it will bend light rays and break white light into all the colors of a rainbow. (And you can't buy a rainbow.)
ANONYMOUS
"What makes a diamond worth so much?", Life Magazine, August 29, 1969
Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
"The Duke of Brunswick's Diamonds"
The diamond invention--the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem--is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton.
EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN
"Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?", The Atlantic, February 1, 1982
Diamonds are the most prized and highly valued of gemstones. Throughout history they have been admired by royalty and worn as a symbol of strength, courage and invincibility. Over the centuries the diamond acquired unique status as the ultimate gift of love, in myth and reality. It is the hardest known substance yet has the simplest chemical composition, consisting of crystallized carbon, the chemical element that is fundamental to all life.
MARIJAN DUNDEK
Diamonds
Diamonds have inspired dreams of wealth and power throughout history ... some diamonds are so valuable that a person can literally carry a king's ransom in pocket.
EDWARD ERLICH
attributed, Diamond Deposits: Origin, Exploration, and History of Discovery
The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes.
KATE CHISMAN
Creep
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond.
EARTHA KITT
attributed, Eartha Kitt: She Growls, She Purrs
You can't touch a woman who can wear pain like the grandest of diamonds around her neck.
ALFA H.
Abandoned Breaths