Shakespeare Quotations Quiz
Choose the plays in which the quotations appear.
The answers are after the last quotation, number 37.
1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable!
a. King Henry IV
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. A Midsummer Night's Dream
d. Hamlet
2. The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. The Winter's Tale
c. King Henry V
d. As You Like It
3. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
a. Romeo and Juliet
b. The Taming of the Shrew
c. Measure for Measure
d. A Midsummer Night's Dream
4. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
a. The Tempest
b. Hamlet
c. As You Like It
d. The Merchant of Venice
5. Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
a. Romeo and Juliet
b. Hamlet
c. The Winter's Tale
d. King Henry IV
6. They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.
a. Measure for Measure
b. A Midsummer Night's Dream
c. King Richard II
d. King Henry V
7. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
a. The Tempest
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. King Richard II
d. Macbeth
8. Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
a. As You Like It
b. Twelfth Night
c. The Merchant of Venice
d. Hamlet
9. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. The Winter's Tale
c. King Henry V
d. Romeo and Juliet
10. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
a. As You Like It
b. Measure for Measure
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. King Henry IV
11. What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. The Winter's Tale
d. The Tempest
12. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.
a. Hamlet
b. As You Like It
c. A Midsummer Nights Dream
d. The Merchant of Venice
13. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.
a. Julius Caesar
b. King Henry IV
c. A Midsummer Night's Dream
d. Romeo and Juliet
14. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
a. The Tempest
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. King Richard II
d. The Winter's Tale
15. We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.
a. Pericles
b. Hamlet
c. Measure for Measure
d. Romeo and Juliet
16. And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
a. As You Like It
b. A Midsummer Night's Dream
c. King Henry VI
d. King Henry V
17. And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. King Henry IV
c. King Richard II
d. The Winter's Tale
18. A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. The Tempest
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. King Henry V
19. Great floods have flown from simple sources.
a. All's Well that Ends Well
b. Hamlet
c. Measure for Measure
d. A Midsummer Night's Dream
20. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
a. As You Like It
b. King Henry V
c. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
d. The Winter's Tale
21. Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.
a. The Winter's Tale
b. The Tempest
c. Othello
d. The Merchant of Venice
22. He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
a. Hamlet
b. King Henry IV
c. Measure for Measure
d. Othello
23. Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
a. King Henry VIII
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. A Midsummer Night's Dream
d. The Taming of the Shrew
24. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!
a. As You Like It
b. The Tempest
c. Hamlet
d. King Henry V
25. The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
a. The Winter's Tale
b. Julius Caesar
c. Othello
d. The Merchant of Venice
26. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. Othello
c. Measure for Measure
d. Hamlet
27. They say, best men are moulded out of faults: And, for the most, become much more the better, for being a little bad.
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. Measure for Measure
c. The Tempest
d. Hamlet
28. 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.
a. King Henry IV
b. The Merchant of Venice
c. As You Like It
d. Hamlet
29. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
a. King Henry V
b. Measure for Measure
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. King Richard II
30. O! it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. King Henry V
c. Measure for Measure
d. Othello
31. Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
a. Hamlet
b. The Tempest
c. The Taming of the Shrew
d. King Richard II
32. Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
a. Hamlet
b. A Midsummer Night's Dream
c. The Winter's Tale
d. As You Like It
33. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.
a. King Henry IV
b. The Merchant of Venice
c. As You Like It
d. Measure for Measure
34. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
a. The Tempest
b. King Henry V
c. Measure for Measure
d. Romeo and Juliet
35. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
a. The Winter's Tale
b. Measure for Measure
c. The Taming of the Shrew
d. King Henry VI
36. If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
a. As You Like It
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. King Richard II
d. A Midsummer Night's Dream
37. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. King Henry IV
d. The Winter's Tale
answers: 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b, 5-a, 6-c, 7-d, 8-b, 9-d, 10-a, 11-a, 12-c, 13-a, 14-c, 15-a, 16-c, 17-a, 18-d, 19-a, 20-c, 21-a, 22-d, 23-a, 24-c, 25-a, 26-d, 27-b, 28-d, 29-a, 30-c, 31-a, 32-b, 33-c, 34-a, 35-d, 36-a, 37-c
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