Gabrielle Aplin’s song Keep on Walking from her 2013 album English Rain includes the lyrics 'All that glitters is not gold / From these bruises flowers grow'. In the episode, "All That Glitters" of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob gives a brief soliloquy of the Shakespearean quote directly to the audience.
Smash Mouth reference the phrase in the chorus of their signature song, All Star: "All that glitters is gold / Only shooting stars break the mold". Fundamentally, both Tolkien's phrase and the original ask the reader to look beneath the skin, rather than judging on outward look alone. Strider, secretly the rightful king of Gondor, appears to be a mere Ranger. The poem emphasizes that sometimes gold is hidden or mistaken for something else, as opposed to gaudy facades being mistaken for real gold. Tolkien, The Riddle of Strider, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien's poem, "The Riddle of Strider", originally written for The Fellowship of the Ring: The phrase is referenced with a reversal of the usual meaning in J.R.R. Led Zeppelin reference the phrase in the opening line of their hit Stairway to Heaven: "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold". Neil Young used the phrase in his song "Don't Be Denied" ("Well, all that glitters isn't gold/I know you've heard that story told"), from his 1973 album Time Fades Away, to express his "realization that even success wouldn't make him happy", even after he obtained fame and money. The song is perhaps best remembered today for its inclusion in Bowery Bugs (1949), a Bugs Bunny cartoon based on the story of Steve Brodie. It later became a song, "All That Glitters Is Not Gold," in 1901, with words by George A. The phrase first originated from The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, "All that glisters is not gold." (William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 7) In 1747, Thomas Gray paraphrased the saying in his Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes which finishes with the lines: Īrthur Golding in his 1577 English translation of John Calvin's sermons on Ephesians uses the phrase "But al is not gold that glistereth" in sermon 15. The words glister and glitter have the same meaning.
Poet John Dryden used glitter in his 1687 poem The Hind and the Panther. The original version of the saying used the word glisters, but glitters long ago became the predominant form. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 7 Glitters or glisters 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, in the scroll inside the golden casket the puzzle of Portia's boxes (Act II – Scene VII – Prince of Morocco): Ĭhaucer 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 French monk Alain de Lille wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold" in 1175. The Latin is Non omne quod nitet aurum est. The expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th century and may date back to Æsop.