Quotes About Gold

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Yes, my Prince was such as they, Part of gold, and part of clay, ?Though his metal shone as bright, ?And his dross was hid from sight. He who brightest is, and best Still may fear the secret test ?That shall try his heart aright.

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

Lavender clouds sail like a fleet of ships across the pale green dawn; each cloud, planed flat on the wind, has a base of fiery gold.

Venus planet of love, rare as radium pure as platinum more precious than gold.

Stars which are unusually bold and close, with an icy glitter in their light—glints of blue, emerald, gold.

And thinkest thou, Viola, that in a mere act of science there is so much virtue? The commonest leech will tend the sick for his fee. Are prayers and blessings a less reward than gold?

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and… they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

Greensleeves was all my joy,Greensleeves was my delight;Greensleeves was my heart of gold,And who but Lady Greensleeves.

Speak silver, reply gold.

Where," he asks, "is that book? The one with the birds? In the gold slipcover?

Alexander had died in 323 B.C. His embalmed body in its gold and crystal coffin was the new city's most sacred relic.

One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret, Never to be told.

Oliver Twist had found his Artful Dodger … in this instance, a young lout who had been born, quite literally, into a life of crime – slumbering in a pram that had been stolen from John Lewis. Wayne must have thought he had struck gold when he first set foot in Moxham Hall.

The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business With the garb of Christianity.

He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him.

The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.

gold because he was a King, frankincense because he was the High Priest for all men, and myrrh because he would die for the sins of the world.