#diamond

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#freedom #poor #rich #the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz #freedom

There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down– they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#friendship #inspirational-quotes #true-friends #friendship

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#diamond #inspirational #time #inspirational

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ↗

— Confucius

#diamond #flaw #pebble #than #without

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. ↗

— William Congreve

#diamond #must #wit

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attended #been #celebrating #deeply #diamond

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute! ↗

— Ron White

#her #minute #shut #up

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#female #lover #made #makes #nature

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#may #mistaken #pebbles #rough #sometimes