Jewellery

Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.

Quotes

• There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
  • Proverbs 20:15 (KJV)

• Εἴθ᾿ ἄπυρον καλὸν γενοίμην μέγα χρυσίον,
  καί με καλὴ γυνὴ φοροίη καθαρὸν θεμένη νόον.
  • I would I were a jewel
      Of costly gold and fine,
    And a lovely woman wearing me
      With heart as true as mine!
  • Anonymous scolion, as quoted by Athenaeus, xv, 695d, and translated by W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (1907), p. 39; cp. Dio Chrysostom, i, 95

• La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
  Elle n’avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores,
  Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l’air vainqueur
  Qu’ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores.
  • Naked was my dark love, and, knowing my heart,
    Adorned in but her most sonorous gems,
    Their high pomp decked her with the conquering art
    Of Moorish slave girls crowned with diadems.
  • Baudelaire, «Les Bijoux», st. 1, Les Fleurs du mal (1857), as translated by Jacques Le Clercq (1958)

• Haec ornamenta mea.
  • Here are my jewels.
  • Cornelia, as quoted by Valerius Maximus, iv, 4; cp. Ogden Nash, "Columbus", The Face is Familiar (1940), l. 20: "And she said, Here are my jewels, and she wasn’t penurious like Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, she wasn’t referring to her children, no, she was referring to her jewels, which were very very valuable."

• Jewellery?—Baubles; bad for the soul;
  Desire of the heart and lust of the eye!
  • John Davidson, "The Merchantmen", st. 3

• Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
  • Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, III, i

• I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear.
  • Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, III, i

• You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
  • Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I, i, 176