Brass Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

— Lord Chesterfield

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

— Elizabeth I

Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that experience their…

— Anonymous

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service…

— Emily Bronte

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

— Horace

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

— Henry Cejudo

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

— Alain de Lille

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

— Edmund Waller

Knowledge is of more value than gold

— Solomon