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Pearls Quotes - Page 3

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.181, University of Chicago Press

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For lips, I'm into mauves, and I like a little shimmer. I have this Dior lip gloss I love right now called Pearl. It's pink and has shimmer. I don't like anything overdone.

"The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

"Pages From Kurt Cobain's 'Journals' Published" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2002.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379