#diamonds

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #moments #age

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. ↗

— John Webster

#blood #cut #diamonds #dust #fall

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#diamonds #i #neck #rather #roses

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#diamonds #find #hear #peace #see

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#beautiful #cost #deal #diamonds #divorce

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#coal #diamonds #jobs #more #nothing

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#away #diamonds #explained #like #out