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I guess Shakespeare did write it that way, but I've always heard the saying as "Not all that glitters is gold." Perhaps he took some poetic license at the expen

I guess Shakespeare did write it that way, but I've always heard the saying as "Not all that glitters is gold." Perhaps he took some poetic license at the expense of logical correctness.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Shakespeare […] Perhaps he took some poetic license That was kind of his thing, when he wasn’t just inventing words to fit rhyme/meter/mood. He’s not who you would go to if you wanted unambiguous documentation of the guarantees you were providing downstream users, that wasn’t really his thing.