Gemstones Quotes

“The Pressure-
Maybe one day,
after centuries,
we can become brilliant gems
in crystal caves
and we will be immortal after all.”
― Keelie Breanna

“• Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“She could see why men and women through the ages had become besotted with opals. It was as though an almighty hand had scooped a palmful of emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, and pearls and mixed their radiant hues. Fit for a queen. Such a noble stone.”
― Tea Cooper, The Woman in the Green Dress

“Let us suppose that this ounce of mud is left in perfect rest, and that its elements gather together, like to like, so that their atoms may get into the closest relations possible.

Let the clay begin. Ridding itself of all foreign substance, it gradually becomes a white earth, already very beautiful; and fit, with help of congealing fire, to be made into finest porcelain, and painted on, and be kept in kings’ palaces. But such artificial consistence is not its best. Leave it still quiet to follow its own instinct of unity, and it becomes not only white, but clear; not only clear, but hard; not only clear and hard, but so set that it can deal with light in a wonderful way, and gather out of it the loveliest blue rays only, refusing the rest. We call it then a sapphire.

Such being the consummation of the clay, we give similar permission of quiet to the sand. It also becomes, first, a white earth, then proceeds to grow clear and hard, and at last arranges itself in mysterious, infinitely fine, parallel lines, which have the power of reflecting not merely the blue rays, but the blue, green, purple, and red rays in the greatest beauty in which they can be seen through any hard material whatsoever. We call it then an opal.

In next order the soot sets to work; it cannot make itself white at first, but instead of being discouraged, tries harder and harder, and comes out clear at last, and the hardest thing in the world; and for the blackness that it had, obtains in exchange the power of reflecting all the rays of the sun at once in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. We call it then a diamond.

Last of all the water purifies or unites itself, contented enough if it only reach the form of a dew-drop; but if we insist on its proceeding to a more perfect consistence, it crystallizes into the shape of a star.

And for the ounce of slime which we had by political economy of competition, we have by political economy of co-operation, a sapphire, an opal, and a diamond, set in the midst of a star of snow.”
― John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 5. Of Leaf Beauty. Of Cloud Beauty. Of Ideas of Relation

“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.”
― Steve Smy

“This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.”
― Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh

“People are in stingy to appreciate the good works but generous in gossiping, criticism, spreading rumors, and WhatsApp forwards. Hence, The most expensive and rarest commodity in the world today is not "gemstone" but "appreciation.”
― EBINEZAR GNANASEKARAN , You Can Step Ahead to Success

“To my mind there is nothing like the quest for jewels at their sources, which will throw a man into the whirlpool of adventure, and if he has eyes to see it, into the arms of romance itself. Adventure and romance usually prove to be uncommonly uncomfortable at first-hand, but they are the stuff of memories. Memories studded with gems, memories literally bejeweled, are to me memories worth having indeed.”
― Louis Kornitzer

“Do gems burn, I wonder? ‘Tis said they’re kin to coal.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. He loved the red gold of the sunstone, and the moonstone’s pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky opal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The favourites of James I wore ear-rings of emeralds set in gold filigrane. Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parsemé with pearls. Henry II. wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients. The ducal hat of Charles the Rash, the last Duke of Burgundy of his race, was hung with pear-shaped pearls and studded with sapphires.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The aspirant of the night is alone, the work merely a bubbly tale; a journeyman funneling ideas into gemstones.”
― James Emlund

“Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.”
― Leatrice Eiseman, Color - Messages & Meanings: A PANTONE Color Resource

“As she descended below the floor level of the loft, her former partner in juvenile crime was revealed to her from scuffed paniolo boots, up a long, muscled body that appeared to go on forever, to a venerable black Stetson. His cowboy look was new to her and it suited him. When she backtracked to his Hawaiian-sky blue eyes, she swayed under the impact and abruptly sat down. Any stair step would do." Noelani Beecham, Pele's Tears”
― Sharon K. Garner, Pele's Tears

“Moissanite gemstone”
― Messigems

“some gives protection, some needs protection.

#bluesaphire #Neelam”
― Furqan Haider

“...here (in India) the diamond is the king of the gemstones. But if we use value and beauty as our criteria it is certain that, for us, emeralds hold first place, then rubies.”
― Garcia da Orta, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India

“If you pick up a stone on the beach and put it in your pocket, and the very next day something good happens to you, you may start having the belief that that stone is lucky for you. So, you hold on to it as a lucky charm. Now this is completely acceptable self-preservation mechanism, but when fraudsters start selling such stones to the meek and vulnerable, that is not only unacceptable, but downright criminal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“The carbuncle (cabochon garnet) served to furnish light to certain great serpents or dragons when old age had enfeebled their eyes. They constantly carried these magical stones between their teeth, only dropping them when it was necessary to eat or drink.”
― Louis Dieulafait, Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems

“Here was the chrysoberyl that all day hides its secret in deeps of lucid green, but when night comes flames with its fiery ecstasy...”
― L. Adams Beck, The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories

“It was true—if Emilia didn't hear about it, it didn't happen. Her trades were gemstones and gossip, and she was a master of both, collecting rumors the way scholars collected books.”
― J. Nelle Patrick, Tsarina

“Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.”
― Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

“Pearls are perfection provided by nature. They are the only gems that do not require enhancing by man.”
― Peter Von Perle

“Patience is like the most precious gemstone. Who can have it?”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“What breathtaking stories do gemstones hold within their sparkling depths, weaving tales of love, passion, and resilience?”
― Roy Philip

“Made by nature - Destined for you

-Tree of Life Gems”
― russel s. rash