Quote#Money & Wealth
No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
Quote byJohn Wolcot · 1738–1819
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland..
English (original)
No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
— John Wolcot
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