Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

— Anonymous

“So El Dorado is no’ a man.” In a soft tone, Lucia said, “She’s La Dorada, the Gilded Woman. History had it wrong. Really…

— Kresley Cole

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements…

— Peter Shaffer

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was,…

— Jack Handey

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

— Anonymous

“Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In…

— Howard Zinn

“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The living always think that gold can make them happy”

— Oscar Wilde

“First perfected by Cortés in Mexico, it was based on the observation that the best way for the Spanish to subdue opposition was to…

— Daron Acemoğlu

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

— Samuel Johnson

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

“Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.”

— S.M. Carrière