Diamond Tip

Famous quotes containing the words diamond and/or tip:

“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)

“When words reach the tip of your tongue, hold back half of them.”
—Chinese proverb.