William Shakespeare Gold Quotations

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.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

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

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!

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

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

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

A good heart 'is worth gold.

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

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

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.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

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

All that glitters is not gold.

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.

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

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

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.