“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.”
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)
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“302. All is not gold that glisters.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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)
Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
“all that glitters is not gold”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
Source: The Canterbury Tales
“All is not gold that glisteneth.”
Thomas Middleton A Fair Quarrel
A Fair Quarrel (1616), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "But all thing which that shineth as the gold, Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told", Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Chanones Yemannes Tale", Line 16430.
“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician