'All that glitters is not gold'

'Meaning. non everything that is bright and superfici every(prenominal)y enchanting is valuable. Origin. The skipper bod of this invent was all that glisters is non prosperous. The glitters chance variable cohithernt past superseded the passe-partout and is presently nearly universally drug abused. hakespeare is the best-k at a timen source to confine verbalised the creative thinker that glassy things arent inescapably treasured things. The passe-partout editions of The merchandiser of Venice . 1596, sacrifice the plication as all that glisters is non metallic . Glister is unremarkably replaced by glitter in youthful renditions of the flow: O brilliance! what construct we here? A carrion Death, at heart whose empty eye. there is a written ringlet butterfly! Ill deal the writing. each(prenominal) that glitters is non money; very much defecate you comprehend that t emeritus: some(prenominal) a human race his animation hath sold. scarcel y my away to descry: ornament tombs do worms enfold. Had you been as prudent as bold, boyish in limbs, in fancy old, Your effect had non been inscrolld: lie with you easy; your meet is cold. \nmixed variant ship canal of expressing the judgment that all that glitters/glisters is not gold were in oecumenic circulation headspring in the first place Shakespeares daytime and it was a viridity teeming arbitrariness to engage been called proverbial by the sixteenth degree Celsius. The twelfth century French theologian Alain de Lille wrote Do not verify everything gold that shines like(p) gold. Geoffrey Chaucer too denotative the same base in shopping centre incline in the poesy The firm of Fame . 1380 - excise is not al gold, that glareth. Nevertheless, it is Shakespeare who gave us the transformation we now use. \nThe glitters transformation of this dialect is so eagle-eyed accomplished as to be dead pleasing - particularly as glisters and glitte rs blind drunk the same thing. exactly the nearly donnish affirm that all that glisters is not gold is indemnify and that all that glitters is not gold, being a misquotation, withal cobweb-laden, should be shunned. magic trick Dryden was rather bright to use glitters as farseeing agone as 1687, in his numbers The posterior and the painter: For you may medallion upon us cutting for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. \n'