Films — Live-Action
You shee, Mr. Powersh, I love goooooold! The look of it! The tashte of it! The shmell of it! The texture! I love gold so much that I even losht my genitalia in an unfortunate shmelting accident. Hence the name... Goldmember.
— Goldmember, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Gunther: She told you there was gold on the ship? (laughs) Is that what you told him?
Marie: Twenty-two million dollars worth. Gold is a magic word. But it didn't work.
Gunther: Ah, Giff... People slip and chop and sell their children when gold is mentioned but you don't even budge.
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold...
This heart is cold! He loves only gold!
Only gold!
HE LOVES GOOOOLD!
This heart is cold! He loves only gold!
Only gold!
HE LOVES GOOOOLD!
This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life, I have been in love with its brilliance, its divine heaviness. I welcome any enterprise which will increase my stock. Which is considerable.
— Auric Goldfinger himself, Goldfinger
Thrór's love of gold had grown too fierce. A sickness had begun to grow within him. It was a sickness of the mind... and where sickness thrives, bad things will follow.
Gold, gold, hooked am I
Susannah, go ahead and cry
Susannah, go ahead and cry
— "Gold Fever," Paint Your Wagon
Howard: Aah, gold's a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 handsome smackers worth of it. "So help me, Lord, and cross my heart." Fine resolution. After months of sweatin' yourself dizzy, and growin' short on provisions, and findin' nothin', you finally come down to 15,000, then ten. Finally, you say, "Lord, let me just find $5,000 worth and I'll never ask for anythin' more the rest of my life."
Flophouse Bum: $5,000 is a lot of money.
Howard: Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more.
Flophouse Bum: $5,000 is a lot of money.
Howard: Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more.
Live-Action TV
Funny thing about gold: the metal itself don’t change much. Heat it up, melt it down, bury it in the ground, the gold itself never changes. It sure changes people, though.
— Joshua Skinner’s letter, Monk, "Mr. Monk Gets Married"
Tabletop Games
Fourteen Orks on a humie's ship,
Killin' anything that isn't green,
Gruntin' to each other through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin' "Times be getting' lean"
Thirteen Orks with the Captain's chest,
Hopin' to quench their greedy thirst,
Gruntin' to each other through big, sharp teeth
Sayin' "I was da wun dat saw it first"
One lone Ork left to steal the loot,
Wishin' it hadn't turned out so,
Gruntin' to isself through big, sharp teeth
Sayin' "I shoulda let the pilot go"
Killin' anything that isn't green,
Gruntin' to each other through big, sharp teeth,
Sayin' "Times be getting' lean"
Thirteen Orks with the Captain's chest,
Hopin' to quench their greedy thirst,
Gruntin' to each other through big, sharp teeth
Sayin' "I was da wun dat saw it first"
One lone Ork left to steal the loot,
Wishin' it hadn't turned out so,
Gruntin' to isself through big, sharp teeth
Sayin' "I shoulda let the pilot go"
— Traditional shipman's song from the Cyclops Cluster, Warhammer 40,000: Battlefleet Gothic
Video Games
"There be gold in them thar hills!"
— Private George Gordon Haggard, Jr., Battlefield: Bad Company
IIDX GOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDD!!
Make it! Make money!
Make it! Make money!
— DJ YOSHITAKA under his "Michael a la Mode" alias, the beatmania IIDX song "GOLD RUSH"
Webcomics
Duke: Is that an entire room filled with gold?
Servant: It is, and there are several others besides.
Duke: Then why do I feel a great deal of distress right now?
Servant: Because His Grace is wise beyond his years.
Servant: It is, and there are several others besides.
Duke: Then why do I feel a great deal of distress right now?
Servant: Because His Grace is wise beyond his years.
Web Original
Geoff: Just you and I, Alpha Two. Well, on the bright side, your cut just got a hell of a lot bigger.
Ryan: We are clear of the cops, I believe. [...] Man, that was quite a take!
Geoff: I had a feeling... why are we stopped?
Ryan: [Dramatic Gun Cock] I mean, there really doesn't have to be two of us left at this point though, does there?
Geoff: Ohhh no, we're not gonna—
[Geoff Game Over: Wasted: BM Vagabond shot you down.]
Ryan: We are clear of the cops, I believe. [...] Man, that was quite a take!
Geoff: I had a feeling... why are we stopped?
Ryan: [Dramatic Gun Cock] I mean, there really doesn't have to be two of us left at this point though, does there?
Geoff: Ohhh no, we're not gonna—
[Geoff Game Over: Wasted: BM Vagabond shot you down.]
"And by the way, if you can't figure out what he's chasing in this show, I'll give you one guess:
'Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!'"
'Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!'"
— The Nostalgia Critic on El Capitan from DuckTales (1987)
Western Animation
"I'm afraid, children, that Mr. McDuck is in the clutches of Gold Fever. It's when you itch for wealth so much you forget what's important!"
— Mrs Beakley, DuckTales (1987), "Too Much Of A Gold Thing"
Other
Because of lust for gold, morals reached a low point, known as the gold standard.
— It All Started with Columbus
I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart that can be cured only with gold.
