Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Play ·20 of 348
"All that glitters is not gold."
They never said that.
What people say
"All that glitters is not gold."
What was actually said
"All that glisters is not gold." Prince of Morocco — The Merchant of Venice, II.vii (c. 1596)
Why it stuck
The original verb is "glisters," not "glitters." Morocco's casket speech rhymes "glisters" with "told."
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