Black Diamond

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or diamond:

“Never ‘eld with mournin’ meself. I always say, life’s black enough as it is without dressin’ in it, too.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)