Gold Quote by Hans Christian Andersen Download Open image “I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.” — Hans Christian Andersen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gold Honour Misers Way
I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you,… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“It was the last night that she would breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“Roses bloom and cease to be, but we shall the Christ-child see” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow,… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch;” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. — PSY Copy Share Image
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose. — Stacy London Copy Share Image
