Jewels quotes

“Mr. Warbucks, when my folks left me at the orphanage ten years ago, they left a note saying they'd come back to get me as soon as they could, and they kept the other half of this old locket so I'd know them when they came.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie

“How is it that the ultimate prize in the most macho sport ever invented is a piece of jewelry?”
Jennifer Garner - Ali

“- Cheryl: Well, after you left, he started getting into drugs and stuff. Things got really bad when he...
- Jack Spade: Well, what? Cheryl, come on!
- Cheryl: He started wearing gold chains, Jack.
- Jack Spade: Oh, God, no!”
Dawnn Lewis - Cheryl
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Jack Spade

“These are facts, sir. Not school book history, not Mr. Wells's history, but history nevertheless. They sent this foot-high jeweled bird to Charles, who was then in Spain. They sent it in a galley commanded by a member of the Order. It never reached Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

- Cousin Avi: Look in the dog.
- Bullet-Tooth Tony: What do you mean "look in the dog"?
- Cousin Avi: I mean open him up.
- Bullet-Tooth Tony: It's not as if it's a tin of baked beans! What do you mean "open him up"?

Dennis Farina - Cousin Avi
Vinnie Jones - Bullet-Tooth Tony

“Big girlsneed big diamonds.”
Liz Taylor

“My precious. My precious.”

Peter Woodthorpe - Gollum

“Ah, the diamond industry. Truly the greatest trick someone other than me played on the world. Thousands of dollars for lumps of old coal.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“- Simone Clouseau: If I'm not being too nosy your highness, I read somewhere there was some dispute over the ownership of the Pink Panther.
- Princess Dala: It belongs to me. It was a gift from my late father. I shall never surrender it.
- Sir Charles Lytton: Why should you?
- Princess Dala: When the present government seized power, they claimed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Capucine - Simone Clouseau
Claudia Cardinale - The Princess
David Niven - Sir Charles Lytton

“Jewelry? Seriously? Sheldon, you are the most shallow, self-centered person I have ever met! Do you really think another transparently manipulative – Oh, it’s a tiara! Put it on me, put it on me, put it on me, put it on me.”
Mayim Bialik - Amy Farrah Fowler

- Scout: May I see your watch? "To Atticus, My Beloved Husband." Atticus, Jem says this watch is gonna belong to him some day.
- Atticus Finch: That's right.
- Scout: Why?
- Atticus Finch: Well, it's customary for the boy to have his father's watch.
- Scout: What are you gonna give me?
- Atticus Finch: Well, I don't know that I have much else of... (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Badham - Scout Finch
Gregory Peck - Atticus Finch

“Without knowledge of jewelery, my dear Gigi, a woman is lost.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia

“I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Lady Beekman: It's a tiara.
- Lorelei Lee: You do wear it on your head. I just love finding new places to wear diamonds.”
Norma Varden - Lady Beekman
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“Diamonds are a girl's best friend.”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Lady Margaret Carstairs: [presenting her diamond] My husband gave it to me on our fifth wedding anniversary.
- Sherlock Holmes: 423 carats, isn't it?
- Lady Margaret Carstairs: The original diamond was over 700 carats.
- Sherlock Holmes: Really?
- Lady Margaret Carstairs: [to her son] Your father had it cut. Less ostentatious.
- Dr. John H....” (continue)(continue reading)
Mary Forbes - Lady Margaret Carstairs
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce - Dr. Watson

“The French are glad to die for love. They delight in fighting duels. But I prefer a man who lives... and gives expensive jewels.”
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“- Joanna Eberhard: But, she had sparks coming out of her ears.
- Roger Bannister: That's the first sign.
- Joanna Eberhard: Of what?
- Roger Bannister: Cheap jewelery.”
Nicole Kidman - Joanna Eberhart
Roger Bart - Roger Bannister

“It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.”
Maurice Chevalier

“To partake of the stone's endless destiny, is that not the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.”
Bruno Ganz - Diamond Dealer

“- Counselor: I want her to have something that she would not be uncomfortable wearing. I don't want to give her a diamond so big she'd be afraid to wear it.
- Diamond Dealer: She is probably more courageous than you imagine.”
Michael Fassbender - Counselor
Bruno Ganz - Diamond Dealer

- Ryan Weaver: Are you married?
- Marshal Marty Douglas: Yeah, but I don't wear rings. I don't like jewelry.
- Ryan Weaver: You don't have to defend yourself to me. Was that a tough sell to your wife? The "I don't like wearing jewelry" bit?
- Marshal Marty Douglas: Weaver, I know you'd like to entertain yourself by engaging me in a challenging... (continue)(continue reading)
Ray Liotta - Ryan Weaver
Michael Harney - Marshall Marty Douglas

“- Tiffany: The ring. The one you left for me. I found it on the mantle the night you were killed. I've never taken it off.
- Chucky: Oh, that. The one I got from Vivian VanPelt.
- Tiffany: Vivian who?
- Chucky: Vivian VanPelt. I dumped her in the river, remember? That ring is worth five or six grand easy.
- Tiffany: You mean... you weren't gonna...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jennifer Tilly - Tiffany
Brad Dourif - Chucky

“- Carrie Bradshaw: So really, we're, we're getting married?
- Mr. Big: We're getting married. Should we get you a diamond?
- Carrie Bradshaw: No. No. Just get me a really big closet.”
Sarah Jessica Parker - Carrie Bradshaw
Chris Noth - Mr. Big

“- Countess Chandra: How much?
- Gino Rossi: Six million.
- Countess Chandra: But that's ridiculous.
- Gino Rossi: It's at least worth thirty.
- Countess Chandra: It'll have to be split with at least forty percent of it.”

Joanna Lumley - Countess Chandra
Christopher Reich - Gino Rossi