Jewellery Quotes

“You mend the jewel by the wearing it.”

“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear.”

“Jewellery?—Baubles; bad for the soul;
Desire of the heart and lust of the eye!”

“Wikipedia: Jewellery”

“There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.”

“Haec ornamenta mea.”

“Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.”

“La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
Elle n’avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores,
Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l’air vainqueur
Qu’ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores.”

“Εἴθ᾿ ἄπυρον καλὸν γενοίμην μέγα χρυσίον,
καί με καλὴ γυνὴ φοροίη καθαρὸν θεμένη νόον.
• I would I were a jewel
  Of costly gold and fine,
And a lovely woman wearing me
  With heart as true as mine!”