"""All that glisters is not gold"" is a quote from which Shakespeare play?"
All that glitters is not gold wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold" in 1175. Chaucer gave two early versions in English: ""But al thyng which that shyneth as the gold / Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told"" in "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale", and ""Hyt is not al golde that glareth"" in "The House of Fame". The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice", which employs the word "glisters," a 17th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, the puzzle of
All that glitters is not gold Portia's boxes (Act II - Scene VII - Prince of Morocco): Panning for gold often results in finding pyrite, nicknamed fool's gold, which reflects substantially more light than authentic gold does. Gold in its raw form appears dull and lusterless. The original version of the saying used the word "glisters", but "glitters" long ago became the predominant form. Poet John Dryden used "glitter" in his 1687 poem "The Hind and the Panther". The words "glister" and "glitter" have the same meaning. In pop culture, this phrase shows up in Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up". It is also used as