Affluence Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

— Julia Caroline Dorr

“We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to…

— Tim Westover

“counting their 4 percent share as they drilled away at the riverbank and leached out the gold into dull yellow cakes”

— Scott Wallace

After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were…

— Henry David Thoreau

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

— William Wordsworth

All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold:…

— William Shakespeare

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

— George Meredith

“Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy”

— William Shakespeare

“At the edge of the lot, wildflowers had taken over, forming a thick border. I stopped to pick a bouquet of gold buttercups and…

— Mary Simses

“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the old-wood smell…

— Donna Tartt

“I continued my explorations in a cobbled yard overlooked by broken doors and cracked windows. Pushing open a swollen door into a storeroom, I…

— Martine Bailey