Famous quotes containing the words world and/or diamond:
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“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)