Famous quotes containing the words world and/or diamond:
“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“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)