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Alain de Lille
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Alain de Lille (Latin: Alanus ab Insulis; c. 1128 – 1202/1203) was a French theologian and poet.
Quotes
Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
Liber Parabolarum (Parabolae), ch. 3 (ed. Leyser, 1721)
"All that glitters is not gold." Cf. Chaucer, The House of Fame, bk. I, l. 272, and The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, l. 409; Lydgate, On the Mutability of Human Affairs, l. 12; Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, sc. vi, l. 65; Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. II, bk. iii, ch. 33; Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, act V, sc. i; Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, pt. I, l. 214; Gray, On the Death of a Favourite Cat, st. 7; Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Strider's riddle)
See also
List of Latin phrases (N)
External links
Polykarp Leyser IV, Historia Poetarum Medii Ævi (Halle, 1721) p. 1074
W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904) pp. 100, no. 777; 290, no. 2297
Category:1200s deaths
Category:Poets from France
Category:Theologians from France