English scholarship quotes

Question 1

Macbeth quotes about love

Answer 1

‘All is fear and nothing is love; As little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason’
‘She should have died thereafter: There would have been a time for such a word.’

Question 2

The Taming of the Shrew quote about love -bad

Answer 2

‘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 3

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about love - sad

Answer 3

‘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 hate, And therefore is love said to be a child, because in choice he is so oft beguiled.’

Question 4

Macbeth quotes about greed - Macbeth

Answer 4

‘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 5

The Taming of the Shrew quote love - good

Answer 5

‘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 6

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about love - good

Answer 6

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

Question 7

Macbeth quote about greed - Lady Macbeth

Answer 7

‘Out, damned spot! Out, say I!’

Question 8

The Taming of the Shrew quotes about greed - Petruchio

Answer 8

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

Question 9

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed - Demetrius

Answer 9

‘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 10

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed - Oberon

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Macbeth quote about free will - witches

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Macbeth quote about free will - Macbeth

Answer 12

‘If chance will have me kind, why chance may crown me, without my stir.’

Question 13

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - induction

Answer 13

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

Question 14

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Kate

Answer 14

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

Question 15

The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Petruchio

Answer 15

‘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 16

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about free will - Oberon

Answer 16

‘With the juice of this I’ll steak her eyes / And make her full of hateful fantasies.’

Question 17

A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about free will - Demetrius

Answer 17

‘My love to Hermia/ melted as the snow, seems to me know as the remembrance of an idle gaud, which in my childhood I did dote upon.’
Gaud????

Question 18

Prophet Song quotes about powerlessness

Answer 18

‘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 19

Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Lizzie

Answer 19

‘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 20

Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Charlotte

Answer 20

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