Shakespeare Quotes

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Hamlet

Question 2

‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

Answer 2

Hamlet

Question 3

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Answer 3

Hamlet

Question 4

Get thee to a nunnery.

Answer 4

Hamlet

Question 5

To thine own self be true.‘

Answer 5

Hamlet

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Hamlet

Question 7

Brevity is the soul of wit.‘

Answer 7

Hamlet

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Hamlet

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Hamlet

Question 10

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 10

As You Like It

Question 11

Now is the winter of our discontent’

Answer 11

Richard III

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Richard III

Question 13

‘Off with his head!’

Answer 13

Richard III

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Macbeth

Question 15

‘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 15

Macbeth

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Macbeth

Question 17

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

Answer 17

12th Night

Question 18

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

Answer 18

12th Night

Question 19

‘This is very midsummer madness.’

Answer 19

12th Night

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Julius Caesar

Question 21

‘Beware the Ides of March.‘

Answer 21

Julius Caesar

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Julius Caesar

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Julius Caesar

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Julius Caesar

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Julius Caesar

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Julius Caesar

Question 27

‘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 27

Tempest

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Tempest

Question 29

‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’

Answer 29

Tempest

Question 30

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

Answer 30

King Lear

Question 31

‘Nothing will come of nothing.’

Answer 31

King Lear

Question 32

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

Answer 32

King Lear

Question 33

‘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 33

The Merchant of Venice

Question 34

‘All that glisters is not gold.’

Answer 34

The Merchant of Venice

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Othello

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Much Ado About Nothing

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Merry Wives of Windsor

Question 38

We have seen better days

Answer 38

Timon of Athens

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Richard II

Question 40

What light through yonder window breaks

Answer 40

Romeo and Juliet

Question 41

‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’

Answer 41

Romeo and Juliet

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Romeo and Juliet

Question 43

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

Answer 43

Gloucester speaks these words as he wanders on the heath after being blinded by Cornwall and Regan