“All is not gold that glisters.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
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“All that glisters is not gold.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Prince of Morocco, reading Portia's note, Act II, scene vii; this is the source of the popular paraphrase "All that glitters is not gold."
Source: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)
“302. All is not gold that glisters.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“This man sold his country for gold.”
Vendidit hic auro patriam.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 621
“Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"The Lost Son," ll. 8-11
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Context: I shook the softening chalk of my bones,
Saying,
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 7 <br class="br"> On the Death of a Favourite Cat http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odfc (1747)
“So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The Daisy, Stanza 24; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)