Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. William Shakespeare
  5. Gold

William Shakespeare Quotes about Gold

All William Shakespeare Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acting Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anger Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Army Art Atheism Attitude Authority Autumn Balance Beauty Beer Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Bliss Boat Bones Boredom Bravery Business Caring Challenges Change Chaos Character Charity Chastity Childhood Children Choices Christianity Christmas Church Communication Compassion Confidence Confusion Conscience Contentment Cooking Corruption Country Courage Courtship Creation Creativity Crime Cynicism Dad Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devil Dignity Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Encouraging Envy Equality Eternity Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Fairness Faith Falling In Love Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Fear Of Death Feelings Fighting Flattery Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Fun Funeral Funny Future Generosity Genius Gentleness Giving Glory God Gold quotes Goodbye Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief Grieving Growth Guilt Halloween Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Hilarious History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Injury Innocence Insanity Insomnia Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jealousy Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Killing Kindness Kissing Knowledge Labor Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Listening Literature Losing Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lust Lying Madness Magic Marriage Memorial Day Memories Mercy Military Moderation Modesty Money Moon Morning Mortality Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Nature Navy Negotiation Obedience Obesity Offense Office Opportunity Pain Painting Parenting Passion Past Patience Peace Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preparation Pride Procrastination Prophet Prosperity Protest Purpose Quality Rage Rain Reading Reflection Religion Reputation Respect Retirement Revenge Revolution Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Royalty Running Sad Sadness Safety School Science Self Love Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sisterhood Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smile Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Speed Sports Spring Strength Study Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Swearing Sympathy Taxes Teaching Team Temperance Temptation Terror Thankfulness Theatre Tigers Time Time Management Trade Tragedy Travel True Love Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Uncertainty Understanding Unrequited Love Victory Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Work Worship Writing Youth
A good heart 'is worth gold.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Gold, Good Heart

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

William Shakespeare
Love, Venice, Gold
William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.57

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

William Shakespeare
Gold, Excess, Hue
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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.

William Shakespeare
Men, Gold, Mutiny
William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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

William Shakespeare
Book, Temptation, Gold
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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

William Shakespeare
Dirty, Gold, Worship

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.

William Shakespeare
Men, Soul, Gold
Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.133, Insight Publications

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare
Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter
David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

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!

William Shakespeare
Gold, Desire, Pounds
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

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.

William Shakespeare
Men, Yield, Gold
William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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

William Shakespeare
Gold
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.264, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

William Shakespeare
Liberty, Gold, Noses

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

William Shakespeare
Alchemist, Gold, Alchemy
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.214, Palgrave Macmillan

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

William Shakespeare
Money, Gold, Use
William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

William Shakespeare
Gold, Twenties, Orators
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.148

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Gold, Glorious
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heart, Gold
1599-1600 Rosalind to Celia. AsYou Like It, act1, sc.3, l.107-9.

You May Also Like: