Jewelled Quotes

#1. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him; they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. Gazing at them-the stars-he thought of the jewelled guitar and its worldly glitter.

Truman Capote

#2. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.

Herman Melville

#3. Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

Doris Lessing

#4. There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really.

Jaroslav Seifert

#5. He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.

Emile Zola

#6. A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still
But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

Henry Van Dyke

#7. Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Yoshida Kenko

#8. Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

J.G. Ballard

#9. Once upon a time there was an empress, trapped as a ghost in the ruins of a jewelled palace, cursed to find another soul to take her place. At least, that's what the empress heard. But, as it turned out, stories can have any ending you like.

Kirsty Logan

#10. The knowledgeable gypsy eyes scanned the dairy-maid skin, the gilded hair, the long hands, jewelled to display their beauty while the Master, serenely smiling, returned the compliment under relaxed lids.

Dorothy Dunnett

#11. Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her like the jewelled movements of a timepiece, fine works of art never meant to be seen.

Isaac Marion

#13. Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

Thomas Canty

#14. The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#15. The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars

Virgil

#16. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Steven Wright

#17. It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.

Gordon Brown

#18. Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Mike Royko

#19. The state of the whole body depends upon the soundness and vigour of the heart, and the everlasting state of the whole man upon the good or ill condition of the soul.

John Flavel

#20. Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.

David Brenner

#21. It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

Michel Gondry

#22. Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Aesop

#23. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana