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)
“302. All is not gold that glisters.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
St. 7
On the Death of a Favourite Cat http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odfc (1747)
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
“All is not gold that glisteneth.”
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.”
The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
