White Diamond

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or diamond:

“The man whose heart is as warm as a hanky soaked in ethyl chloride.”
—Edmund White (b. 1940)

“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)