"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

-- Plautus

#Character Quotes #Jewels Quotes #Jewelry Quotes

“In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.39, A&C Black
“We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage
“Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.”
“Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.483, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”
“I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.”

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