Alain de Lille

Alain de Lille (Latin: Alanus ab Insulis; c. 1128 – 1202/1203) was a French theologian and poet.

• Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
  • Liber Parabolarum (Parabolae), ch. 3 (ed. Leyser, 1721)

    "All that glitters is not gold." Cf. Chaucer, The House of Fame, bk. I, l. 272, and The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, l. 409; Lydgate, On the Mutability of Human Affairs, l. 12; Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, sc. vi, l. 65; Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. II, bk. iii, ch. 33; Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, act V, sc. i; Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, pt. I, l. 214; Gray, On the Death of a Favourite Cat, st. 7; Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Strider's riddle)

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• Polykarp Leyser IV, Historia Poetarum Medii Ævi (Halle, 1721) p. 1074
• W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904) pp. 100, no. 777; 290, no. 2297