Top 100 Sayings About A Jewel
#1. I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.
Wilbur Smith
#2. The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a "handbook for happy living" or a "primer of metaphysics about God," but because in it the Christian possessed the "the swaddling clothes in which Christ lies."85
Matthew Barrett
#3. 22. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Anonymous
#4. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
#5. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Paul Saffo
#6. Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
Ovid
#7. Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.
Daphne Du Maurier
#8. Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.
Virginia Woolf
#9. Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul
Kay Boyle
#10. Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
Alan Seeger
#11. Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people?
Donald E. Westlake
#12. Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
Mitch Albom
#13. We found a jewel in the desert,'" I quoted. "'And from it fashioned a charred cinder.
'Queen of Fire Pg 313
Anthony Ryan
#14. In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl Shapiro
#15. I never wanted to be a god, he thought. I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning. I wanted to escape the angels and the damned - alone ... as though by an oversight.
Anonymous
#16. Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.
Jennifer Donnelly
#17. This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.
Karen Russell
#18. An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.
Glenda Gilmore
#20. The lovers ... dreamed of a world that was like a jewel box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for them ... to fill it with their happiness
Laini Taylor
#21. Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
George Santayana
#22. This was a chance for Rhy to shine, not only as a jewel, but as a sword. He had always been a symbol of wealth. He wanted to be a symbol of power. Magic was power, of course, but it wasn't the only kind. Rhy told himself he could still be strong without it.
Victoria Schwab
#23. The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.
Thomas Merton
#24. And so this paradise was like a jewel box without a jewel. There it lay, day after day ... , and waited for lovers to find it and fill it with their happiness
Laini Taylor
#25. I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
Parker Stevenson
#26. An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark.
Winston Graham
#27. Uh-huh. You can't fool me. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure. Well, whatever fire forged you, you are special. You're a jewel." Michael
Eli Easton
#28. San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
Gavin Newsom
#29. The Utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel, when he can behold a star or the sun
Thomas More
#30. Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
Cassandra Clare
#31. There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".
Gerald Mills
#32. And a true brass thimble. Mauma said the thimble would be mine one day. When she wasn't using it, I wore it on my fingertip like a jewel.
Sue Monk Kidd
#33. I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.
Jacqueline Winspear
#36. A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
Rex Stout
#37. Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.
Shalom Harlow
#38. A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
J.K. Rowling
#39. She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
William Shakespeare
#40. Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
Mark Twain
#41. The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!
Laura Beth
#42. A glass of wine in one's hand is rather like a jewel, isn't it, a large, liquid one?
Marie Rutkoski
#43. I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal
#44. We'd better get going." Caramon glanced around uneasily. "We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer's navel.
Margaret Weis
#45. How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.
Robert Penn Warren
#46. Beyond the haze, the globe was decorated with a mosaic of sapphire, emerald and amber. The planet glittered like a jewel in the moonlight.
L.T. Gibbons
#47. It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. Pablo
John Steinbeck
#48. I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
Adrienne Rich
#50. Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
Matthew Henry
#51. O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#52. He who advances without seeking fame,
Who retreats without escaping blame,
He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,
The man is a jewel of the Realm
Sun Tzu
#53. All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
Pearl S. Buck
#54. Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
Linda Ronstadt
#55. Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.
Patti Smith
#56. A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
Bryan Procter
#57. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.
Jodi Picoult
#58. Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.
Francis Quarles
#59. Up the river, toward the city, buttery sunlight bounced off the Temple of the Dawn, scattering color into the air like a jewel.
Sharon Guskin
#60. We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fiction.
Azar Nafisi
#61. Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn
#62. A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.
Jodi Picoult
#63. A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
Saadi
#64. When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
Kenneth Koch
#65. A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.
Sister Souljah
#66. I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
Karen Mills
#67. 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.
Emily Dickinson
#68. When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
Andre Soltner
#69. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
Muriel Barbery
#70. What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#71. I'm trying to find some piece of myself that is truly me, a part that I would be willing to wear like a jewel around my neck.
A.M. Homes
#72. And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.
Gerald Massey
#73. So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.
Shunryu Suzuki
#74. Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.
John Betjeman
#76. I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.
Platon
#77. Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel
Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour;
The heavy white limbs, and the cruel
Red mouth like a venomous flower;
When these have gone by with their glories,
What shall rest of thee then, what remain,
O mystic and somber Delores,
Our Lady of Pain?
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#78. The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#79. [The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel ... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.
Laozi
#80. Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely ... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
John F. Kennedy
#81. Qigong is a jewel that has many facets.
Ken Cohen
#82. Salt Spring Island is a jewel, Quinn," Paul said. "A real jewel. Right up your alley. There's cycling, hiking, scuba diving - and great fishing. No problem for you to occupy yourself.
Carole Dean
#83. Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.
Charles Caleb Colton
#84. All the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction
Kate Constable
#85. And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.
John Buchan
#86. I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.
Ricardo Guadalupe
#87. Don't let the cruel world seize you, you know you are different-a jewel in the crowd, let your work do the talking for you
Vedang Sati
#88. If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
Bette Midler
#89. London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable.
Virginia Woolf
#90. It doesn't matter how precious a jewel is,
it will never shine brighter than a
person that is a diamond within.
Keila Doyle
#91. You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed.
Jay Woodman
#92. She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!
Andrea Zuvich
#93. Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case.
Karen Foxlee
#94. His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.
Ayana Mathis
#95. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
Laozi
#96. Why is the vegetarian Buddhist dressed like a jewel thief?
Jenn Bennett
#97. Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
Nhat Hanh
#98. All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.
Nora Roberts
#99. When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?
George Santayana
#100. Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!
J.R.R. Tolkien
