William Shakespeare Gold Quotations

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

All that glitters is not gold.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

A good heart 'is worth gold.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

It makes a man a coward. . . . It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!