English scholarship quotes

Question 1

The Taming of the Shrew quote about love -bad

Answer 1

‘I will be master of what is my own / She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house/ My household stuff, my field, my barn / My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.’

Question 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about women

Answer 2

‘Things base a vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath lovers mind of any judgement taste,
wings and eyes figure unheeded haste,
And therefore is love said to be a child,
because in choice he is so oft beguiled.’

Question 3

Macbeth quotes about power and greed - Macbeth

Answer 3

‘I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ vaulting ambition which o’er leaps itself/ and falls in th’other.’

Question 4

The Taming of the Shrew quote love - good

Answer 4

‘Luc: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art.
Luc: While you, sweet Dear, prove mistress of my heart.’

Question 5

Macbeth quote about greed - Lady Macbeth

Answer 5

‘Out, damned spot! Out, say I!’

Question 6

The Taming of the Shrew quotes about greed - Petruchio

Answer 6

‘If her dowry please.’
‘One right enough to be Petruchio’s wife. As wealthy is burden of my wooing dance.’

Question 7

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed/power - Demetrius

Answer 7

‘The object and the pleasure of mine eye Is only Helena (…) now I do wish it, love it, long for it, and evermore be true to it.’

Question 8

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed/power - Oberon

Answer 8

‘Do you amen it, then. It lies with you. Why should Titania cross her Oberon?’

Question 9

Macbeth quote about prophecy - witches

Answer 9

‘All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter.’

Question 10

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - induction

Answer 10

‘Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man. I will be pastime passing excellent.’

Question 11

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Kate

Answer 11

‘Belike, you mean to make a puppet of me.’

Question 12

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Petruchio

Answer 12

‘Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented that you shall be my wife, you dowry ‘greed on. And will you, nill you, I will marry you.’

Question 13

Prophet Song quotes about powerlessness

Answer 13

‘They take something from you and replace it with silence and you’re confronted by that silence every moment and cannot live, you cease to be yourself and become a thing before this silence.’
‘Something solid has begun to come lose - it is her heart sliding like gravel.’

Question 14

Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Lizzie

Answer 14

‘I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.’

Question 15

Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Charlotte

Answer 15

‘In nine out of ten cases, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.’

Question 16

Macbeth quotes about women - Lady Macbeth

Answer 16

‘Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts!
Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my purpose’

‘Come to my woman’s breasts
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.’

‘Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.

Question 17

Macbeth quote about women - Macbeth

Answer 17

‘Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.’

Question 18

Macbeth quotes about women - Lady Macduff

Answer 18

‘Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his tittle. From whence himself does fly?’
‘loves us not He wants the natural touch, for the poor wren The most diminutive of birds, will fight Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.’

Question 19

Macbeth quote for supernatural - Macbeth

Answer 19

‘Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.’

Question 20

Macbeth quotes about supernatural - Banquo

Answer 20

‘or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?’
‘What! Can the devil speak true?’

Question 21

Midsummer quote about the supernatural - Puck long

Answer 21

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends

Question 22

Midsummer quote about the supernatural - Puck

Answer 22

‘If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.’

Question 23

Midsummer quote about women - Egeus

Answer 23

I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:
As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death,

Question 24

Midsummer quote about women - Hermia

Answer 24

‘So I will grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
Unto His Lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty’

Question 25

Midsummer quote about women - Helena pitiful

Answer 25

‘I am your spaniel, and Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.’

Question 26

Midsummer nights dream quotes about the supernatural - Oberon

Answer 26

And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes; 640
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady

Question 27

Midsummer quote about supernatural - fairy

Answer 27

Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery,
Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quern
And bootless make the breathless huswife churn,
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm,
Mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm?

Question 28

Classic Pride and Prejudice quotes

Answer 28

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’
‘She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me’
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” (Charlotte)
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

Question 29

Prophet Song random quotes
History

Answer 29

‘History is a silent record of people who could not leave,
it is a record of those who did not have a choice,
you cannot leave when you have nowhere to go and have not the means to go there,
you cannot leave when your children cannot get a passport,
cannot go when your feet are rooted in the earth’

Question 30

Prophet song random quote
Prophet

Answer 30

“The prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others.”

Question 31

Prophet Song random quote
Ending

Answer 31

“the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore,”

Question 32

Prophet Song random quote
Saying things

Answer 32

“if you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true’

Question 33

Mrs Bennett quotes in Pride and Prejudice

Answer 33

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
of nothing else but of her expectation that Jane would be soon married to Mr. Bingley.

Question 34

Folger library on Macbeth

Answer 34

The ideology of gender seems just as destructive from the submissive side as from the rebellious, when Macduff deserts her in order to pursue his political cause against Macbeth in England and there is no husband to stand in the way of the murderers sent by Macbeth. The obedient wife dies, with her cherished son, just as the rebellious, murderous lady will die who consigned her own nursing baby to death.

Question 35

Folger Library on Midsummer

Answer 35

The play invites us to sympathize with the young lovers. In consequence, we want Hermia to marry the man she loves, in spite of the opposition of her ridiculous father, who supposes that serenades and love tokens are forms of witchcraft. And we want Helena to be happy with Demetrius in spite of his initial rejection of her love.