"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), which was written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin. It was based on a novel by Anita Loos.
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“Diamonds are a girls best friend.”
—Leo Robin (b. 1900)
“I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Brigid: Youre not ...
Sam Spade: Yes, angel. Im gonna send you over. But chances are youll get off with life. That means if youre a good girl youll get out in twenty years. Ill be waiting for you. If they hang you, Ill always remember you.”
—John Huston (19061987)
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover in their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)