All is not gold that glitters or glisters

Trust not to appearances. In Latin, “Nulla fides fronti.”

“Not all that tempts your wandering eyes

And heedless hearts is lawful prize, . ,

Nor all that glisters gold.”

Gray: The Cat and the Gold Fish.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.