Jewels Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.