A Quote by Elizabeth I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Elizabeth I

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Brass Fair Gold Ignorant Shines

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Elizabeth I
English - Royalty
September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.

Don Blanding

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

William Butler Yeats

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Alain de Lille

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

John Stuart Blackie

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Chesterfield

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Ovid

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Alain de Lille

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

Ben Harper

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Chesterfield

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Charles Dickens

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

George Carlin

I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Celia Thaxter

Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold

Kid Cudi

To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.