Famous Diamond Quotes & Sayings about the Importance of Diamonds

Diamond Quotes

  • “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” —Leo Robin
  • “Some people value sentiments over diamonds.” —Cassandra Clare
  • “Diamonds are the tears of the poor.” —Helen McCloy
  • “Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.” —John Webster
  • “Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.” —Jill St. John
  • “Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.” —Thomas Browne
  • “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” —Confucius
  • “Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” —Thomas Carlyle
  • “This diamond has so many carats it’s almost a turnip.” —Richard Burton
  • “Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.” —Nicky Oppenheimer
  • “He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond.” —Stephenie Meyer
  • “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”
  • “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” —Malcolm Forbes
  • “My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.” —
  • “A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.” —Jodi Picoult
  • “I’m fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.” —Debra Messing
  • “A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.” —Philip Massinger
  • “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.” —John Webster
  • “Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.”
  • “All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.” —Jose Marti
  • “Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.” —Victor Hugo
  • “A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.” —Kabir
  • “The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master’s crafting to reveal it.” —Kenneth G. Mills
  • “Diamond being the toughest thing on the face of earth is still the prettiest object; pretty is not always being honeyed.” —Priyansh Shah
  • “The diamond which shines in the Saviour’s crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.” —Theodore Parker
  • “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.” —Daniel Defoe
  • “A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond.” —Solange Nicole
  • “The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation.” —Lewis Vertoman
  • “A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.” —Thomas Browne
  • “The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.” —Thomas Guthrie

Famous Diamond Quotes

  • “Big girls need big diamonds.” —Elizabeth Taylor
  • “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “Diamonds never leave you… men do.” —Shirley Bassey
  • “Diamonds are forever – my youth is not.” —Jill St. John
  • “Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” —Juvenal
  • “I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.” —Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • “I am fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on my hands shake.” —Debra Messing
  • “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” —Nicole Richie
  • “Forbes Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” —Malcom Forbes
  • “My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.” —Donatella Versace
  • “Angels are like diamonds. They can’t be made. You have to find them. Each one is unique.” —Jaclyn Smith
  • “Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.” —Mark Twain
  • “I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.” —Joan Rivers
  • “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and dogs are a man’s best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.” —Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • “Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.” —Peter Singer
  • “A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond.” —Solange Nicole
  • “I don’t mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it’s the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?”— Lou Reed

Quotes about Diamond and Life

  • “Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds.” —Ana Claudia Antunes
  • “There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
  • “I celebrate my life, whether it’s being a single mother, wearing diamonds, or holidaying in exotic places.” —Sushmita Sen

Motivational and Inspirational Diamond Quotes

  • “Wear your diamonds on the inside.” —Megan Dodds
  • “It’s diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.” —Jolene Blalock
  • “I carry a little collection of jewelry I love with me, in case I need diamonds.” —Liv Tyler
  • “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.” —John Webster
  • “We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.” —Jojo Moyes
  • “I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It’s just a way of telling a story.” —Waris Ahluwalia
  • “Growing up, I was a bit of a tomboy; feminine things took a while to find their place in my world. But diamonds made me understand the magic and beauty of jewelry.” —Erika Christensen
  • “Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.” —Minnie Driver
  • “It’s not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have – that’s the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It’s about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.” —Kimora Lee Simmons
  • “Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that’s like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you.” —Jeremy Sisto