Alluring, sophisticated, and precious, jewels and gemstones are truly ancient and modern icons. Discover what famous personalities have to say about the world of jewelry and gems. Explore the best and most comprehensive list of jewelry quotes.
Jewelry has been inspiring the history of humankind for centuries.
With their deep colors, perfect shapes, and pure, precious materials, jewels and gemstones are part of the universe of iconic movie stars, writers, musicians, designers, artists, and celebrated historical characters.
Have you ever wondered what entertainment stars, philosophers, or independent artists say or think about jewelry? Take a look at the sentences about gems and jewels that have made history.
Some of the following phrases are fun; others are true life statements or love messages to jewelry pieces, precious and semi-precious stones, and timeless ornaments.
What are your favorite jewelry quotes?
I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.
Amber Tamblyn
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good, but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet last forever.
Anita Loos
The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there’s nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky.
Astrid Alauda
Opal is the multi-gem.
Astrid Alauda
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
Each day is a gem, different in kind, size, and color, and yours to polish!
Carolanne Reynolds
In Beverly Hills, they have real jewelry and fake people. In West Virginia, we have fake jewelry but real people.
Cecil B. Roberts
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
Chinese Proverb
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
Coco Chanel
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
The Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
Christian Lacroix
Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
Colette
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt
My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor
You can’t cry on a diamond’s shoulder, and diamonds won’t keep you warm at night, but they’re sure fun when the sun shines.
Elizabeth Taylor
I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.
Elizabeth Taylor
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance; you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
At a flea market, I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
There is just one piece of jewelry that is equally becoming to everybody, lovely with almost every ensemble, appropriate for almost any occasion, and indispensable in every woman’s wardrobe… long live the pearl necklace, true or false, from our first date until our last breath!
Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
George Eliot
Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
Guy Kawasaki
With melted opals for my milk. Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
Gwendolyn Brooks
In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.
Henry Brooke
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
Henry Kissinger
In diving to the bottom of pleasure, we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
Ivanka Trump
If I had my way, I’d wear jewelry, a great pair of heels, and nothing else.
Jada Pinkett Smith
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
Jean de la Bruyere
For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It’s an accessory.
Jill Scott
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
John Mayer
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
Kahlil Gibran
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
Kahlil Gibran
My favorite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.
Kate Reardon
I feel undressed if I don’t have my pearls on. My pearls are my security blanket.
Lady Sarah Churchill
If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree, we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them, it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value, but most prized when polished.
Lord Chesterfield
In the future, I’d like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I’ve got enough on my plate!
L’Wren Scott
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Lynn Hecht Schafran
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry at various times, and obviously, crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
Madeleine Albright
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
Mae West
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Mae West
No gold-digging for me. I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
Mae West
It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
Moses ibn Ezra
I feel naked without jewelry.
Olivia Thirlby
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea monster had been enamored of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes and had slain the thief and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I’m going to highlight. Let one area do the singing – you don’t want to hear three songs at once.
Padma Lakshmi
You don’t want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what’s out there now does – you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
Padma Lakshmi
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulfur or of fire quickened by oil.
Pliny
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them, and their value will never be known. Improve them, and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime, and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
Richard Bach
This diamond has so many carats it’s almost a turnip.
Richard Burton
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested a fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner
The most precious jewels are not made of stone but of flesh.
Robert Ludlum
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.
Salvador Dali
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
I love jewelry – rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, you name it.
Sofia Vergara
Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles.
Sonja Henie
A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they’re so awesome, and they give me great presents.
Taylor Swift
There are worlds in an opal.
Terri Guillemets
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
Thomas Hood
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
Thomas Moore
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus Maccius Plautus
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
Unknown Author
The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Unknown Author
A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
Unknown Author
Mysterious opals contain the wonders of the skies – sparkling rainbows, fireworks, and lightning, shifting and moving in their depths.
Unknown Author
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and a man’s worst enemy.
Unknown Author
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
Unknown Author
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
Unknown Author
If you don’t know jewelry, know the jeweler.
Warren Buffet
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.
William Morris
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
William Shakespeare
