Shakespeare

Question 1

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

Answer 1

Richard III (Richard III)

Question 2

All that glitters is not gold

Answer 2

The Merchant of Venice (Prince of Morocco)

Question 3

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late

Answer 3

Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford)

Question 4

I must be cruel, only to be kind

Answer 4

Hamlet (Hamlet)

Question 5

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none

Answer 5

All’s Well That Ends Well (Countess of Roussillon)

Question 6

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it

Answer 6

Hamlet (Polonius)

Question 7

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Answer 7

Hamlet (Gertrude)

Question 8

Brevity is the soul of wit

Answer 8

Hamlet (Polonius)

Question 9

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go

Answer 9

Hamlet (Claudius)

Question 10

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

Answer 10

Henry IV Part 2 (Henry IV)

Question 11

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players

Answer 11

As You Like It (Jaques)

Question 12

Be not afraid of greatness.
Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em

Answer 12

Twelfth Night (Malvolio)

Question 13

Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage

Answer 13

Macbeth (Macbeth)

Question 14

Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, when in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason?

Answer 14

Comedy of Errors (Dromio)

Question 15

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, for daws to peck at. I am not what I am

Answer 15

Othello (Iago)

Question 16

Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires

Answer 16

Macbeth (Macbeth)

Question 17

The truth will out

Answer 17

The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot)

Question 18

Suit the action to the word,
The word to the action

Answer 18

Hamlet (Hamlet)

Question 19

We are such stuff
As dreams are made in
And our little life
Is rounded with a sleep

Answer 19

The Tempest (Prospero)

Question 20

He will give the devil his due

Answer 20

Henry IV Part 1 (Prince Hal)

Question 21

If music be the food of love, play on

Answer 21

Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino)

Question 22

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once

Answer 22

Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)

Question 23

Why then, the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open

Answer 23

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pistol)

Question 24

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Answer 24

Macbeth (Macbeth)

Question 25

This above all: 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 25

Hamlet (Polonius)

Question 26

No legacy is so rich as honesty

Answer 26

All’s Well That Ends Well (Mariana)

Question 27

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the petty follies that themselves commit

Answer 27

The Merchant of Venice (Jessica)

Question 28

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief

Answer 28

Othello (Duke of Venice)

Question 29

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Answer 29

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck)

Question 30

By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes

Answer 30

Macbeth (Second Witch)

Question 31

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

Answer 31

The Tempest (Ariel)

Question 32

The course of true love never did run smooth

Answer 32

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander)

Question 33

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it

Answer 33

Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)

Question 34

They do not love that do not show their love

Answer 34

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia)

Question 35

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers

Answer 35

Henry IV, Part 2 (Dick the Butcher)

Question 36

What’s past is prologue

Answer 36

The Tempest (Antonio)

Question 37

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit

Answer 37

Twelfth Night (Feste)

Question 38

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 38

The Merchant of Venice (Shylock)

Question 39

Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war

Answer 39

Julius Caesar (Marc Antony)

Question 40

How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world, That has such people in it

Answer 40

The Tempest (Miranda)

Question 41

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak

Answer 41

As You Like It (Rosalind)

Question 42

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear

Answer 42

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck)

Question 43

There is a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries

Answer 43

Julius Caesar (Brutus)

Question 44

Things without all remedy should be without regard: What’s done is done

Answer 44

Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)

Question 45

The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

Answer 45

The Merchant of Venice (Portia)