Quotes About Opals

#1. Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold.

Oscar Wilde

#2. In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

Kerry Greenwood

#3. With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#4. In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Victoria Finlay

#5. His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. "Why can't you see yourself as I see you?"
-Jack to Amanda

Lisa Kleypas

#6. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.

Denise Levertov

#7. She was young and lovely and surprised and dead. She was also blue. Blue as opals, pale blue. Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring - not summer - sky.

Laini Taylor

#8. Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

Isaac Asimov

#10. I never go wild with nails.

Abbey Clancy

#11. I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.

Terence Lewis

#12. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

#13. Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht

#14. Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Claude C. Hopkins

#15. It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Heinrich Heine