Top 51 Quotes About All That Glitters
#1. All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.
John Desmond Bernal
#2. If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
Martin Luther
#5. Satan is the illusive manipulator. He prances and dances and drinks in the adulation of his worshippers as he glimmers and shimmers, displaying all that glitters and all that attracts the shallowness of man.
Billy Graham
#8. Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.
Scott Westerfeld
#9. All that glitters is not gold, and there is also a lot of gold out there you don't see glittering.
Susan Jones
#10. Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.
Debasish Mridha
#11. If you are about to tell me you are a vampire that glitters in the sunshine, I will
Gwen Hayes
#12. Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe ...
Nas
#13. Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
#14. Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.
Charles Baxter
#16. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Anthony Liccione
#17. Tiny waterfalls trickle down over the rocks where they freeze and the ice glitters in the sunlight reflected off rock and snow. It is said that in the old times, when the early loggers came, the first tree cut down could not fall because the forest was so dense there was no place for it to land.
Kathleen Valentine
#18. Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Terry Pratchett
#19. The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.
Martin Carter
#20. My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.
Cynthia Kadohata
#21. For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.
John Dryden
#23. What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
Osamu Tezuka
#24. I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M Valente
#25. Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.
Vladimir Odoevsky
#26. What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
Francis Quarles
#27. Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule.
Jaye Frances
#28. Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
Thomas Merton
#29. What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
Lauren Oliver
#31. When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.
Irin Carmon
#32. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.
Anne Carson
#33. The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
P. J. O'Rourke
#34. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Miguel De Cervantes
#35. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Bergen Evans
#36. I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.
Roy Thomson
#37. It looks beautiful from out here, but nothing glitters quite as much when you get close up.
Kate Alcott
#38. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.
C.S. Lewis
#39. In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Mason Cooley
#40. He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.
Robin Sloan
#42. She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting
Jandy Nelson
#43. Night simply drapes itself over the day
As if someone had lowered a curtain.
The sky glitters and moves,
Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.
Margarita Engle
#44. All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
Oliver Goldsmith
#45. More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. She told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
Jodi Picoult
#47. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.
Joseph Addison
#49. Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
Adolf Hitler
#50. The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.
Joe Meno
#51. Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold.
Raheel Farooq
