Quotations

Question 1

‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

Answer 1

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 2

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’

Answer 2

(As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7)

Question 3

‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?’

Answer 3

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 4

‘Now is the winter of our discontent’

Answer 4

(Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 5

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

Answer 5

(Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 6

‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’

Answer 6

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 7

‘Beware the Ides of March.’

Answer 7

(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 8

‘Get thee to a nunnery.’

Answer 8

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 9

‘If music be the food of love play on.’

Answer 9

(Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 10

‘What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’

Answer 10

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 11

‘The better part of valor is discretion.’

Answer 11

(Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)

Question 12

‘All that glisters is not gold.’

Answer 12

(The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7)

Question 13

‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’

Answer 13

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 14

‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war’

Answer 14

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 15

‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!’

Answer 15

(Richard III, Act 5, Scene 4)

Question 16

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

Answer 16

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 17

‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’

Answer 17

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 18

‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.’

Answer 18

(Sonnet 18)

Question 19

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’

Answer 19

(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 20

‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’

Answer 20

(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 21

‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

Answer 21

(Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 22

‘What light through yonder window breaks.’

Answer 22

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 23

‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

Answer 23

(Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)

Question 24

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

Answer 24

(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 25

‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’

Answer 25

(The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 26

‘A man can die but once.’

Answer 26

(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Part 2)

Question 27

‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’

Answer 27

(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 28

‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

Answer 28

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 29

‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’

Answer 29

(The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 30

‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

Answer 30

(Othello, Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 31

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’

Answer 31

(The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1)

Question 32

‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

Answer 32

(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)

Question 33

‘To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’

Answer 33

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 34

‘Et tu, Brute?’

Answer 34

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 35

‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

Answer 35

(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 36

‘Nothing will come of nothing.’

Answer 36

(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 37

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

Answer 37

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 38

‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’

Answer 38

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 39

‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

Answer 39

(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 40

‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’

Answer 40

(Sonnet 116)

Question 41

‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’

Answer 41

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 42

‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’

Answer 42

(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 43

‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’

Answer 43

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 44

‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

Answer 44

(Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)

Question 45

‘Off with his head!’

Answer 45

(Richard III, Act 3, Scene 4)

Question 46

‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’

Answer 46

(The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 47

‘This is very midsummer madness.’

Answer 47

(Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

Question 48

‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’

Answer 48

(Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 49

‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’

Answer 49

(The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 50

‘We have seen better days.’

Answer 50

(Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 2)

Question 51

‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

Answer 51

(King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2)