Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming."
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Jewels
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Charles Dickens
Novelist
"On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . ."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?"
Mae West
Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
"I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself."
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"Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it."
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"Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state."
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"Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words."
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"Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU."
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"The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show."
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"Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life."
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"Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel."
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"Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy."
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"There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body."
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"These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of."
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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"Truth is the first of jewels."
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"I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels."
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"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches."
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"Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal."
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"Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon."
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"Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace."
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
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"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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