Jewelry and Fashion Quotes

Check out this interesting collection of jewelry-related quotes from vintage jewelry designers, fashionistas, jewelry-loving actresses, fashion designers, and more!

• I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. -Katharine Hepburn

• In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds.  I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. –Erma Bombeck.

• Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. –William Shakespeare

• Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. -John Lennon

• I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. –Anita Loos

• Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. -Sparky Anderson

• The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. -Unknown

• Big girls need big diamonds. – Elizabeth Taylor

• Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.  -Sonja Henie

• It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. That heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure –Coco Chanel

• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. -Elizabeth Taylor

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. –Imelda Marcos

• Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. –Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

• It's the ring. You can't take your eyes off it. - J.R.R. Tolkien

• Ralph, I am the Jewel. The Jewel of the Nile. –Jewel in the movie Jewel of the Nile.

• A raindrop coming in contact with fire loses it's existence while that falling on a shell becomes a pearl. –Sam Veda

• To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. –Queen Elizabeth I

• The will of the Ring grows strong. -J.R.R. Tolkien

• These gems have life in them:  Their colors speak, say what words fail of.  -George Eliot

• I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.  -Mae West

• Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.  -Richard Bach

• Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.  -Fred Willard

• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. -Rita Rudner

• Diamonds never leave you... Men do!  -Shirley Bassey

• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.  -Mark Twain

• Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.  -Jaclyn Smith

• A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.  -Leo Robin

• If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.  -Joan Rivers

• It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.  -Lil' Kim

• When Lisa wore jeans, she made sure she had real diamonds to compensate.  -Eva Gabor

• I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.  -Zsa Zsa Gabor

• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.  -Thomas Browne

• Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.  –Elsa Schiaparelli

• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union.  Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulfur or of fire quickened by oil.  ~Pliny, about the opal

• I never worry about diets.  The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.  -Mae West

• There are worlds in an opal.  -Astrid Alauda

• Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. -Kahlil Gibran

• As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance.  -unknown, about the opal

• Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.  -Gigi Colette

• No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds!  We may be off the gold standard someday.  -Mae West

• This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.  -Richard Burton

• The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go.  Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows.  And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky.  -Astrid Alauda

• Diamonds are only chunks of coal, that stuck to their jobs, you see. -Minnie Richard Smith

• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. -Thomas Moore

• October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay an Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes to rest. –Unknown

• I just want to know.  Who got all the jewelry? –Joan Rivers

• The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. -Unknown

• When in doubt, wear red. –Bill Blass

• In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. – Elsa Schiaparelli.

• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings. And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for? -Robert Frost

• I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.  They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.  -Rita Rudner

• Fashions fade, style is eternal. –Yves Saint Laurent

• The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. –Paris Hilton.

• You get jewelry--stuff you can wear. Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, you can't hang that around your neck. But everywhere you go, you've got your poker gold and diamond bracelet on; everyone knows you won. –Jennifer Tilly

• I don't do fashion. I am fashion. –Coco Chanel.