07/30/24 Grif.Net - Bard of Avon Quiz
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Here are some classic quotations from William Shakespeare’s treasure-trove of plays. We’ve probably heard or read them all. We’ve probably long ago forgotten in WHICH play each was uttered (if we ever knew to begin with). This quiz will test both memory and mettle. Remember, this tests your memory, not google or AI skills. Take a guess.
Example: ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’
Answer: (Hamlet)
1. 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.’
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2. ‘If music be the food of love, play on.‘
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3. ‘The better part of valor is discretion‘
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4. ‘All that glisters is not gold.‘
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5. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
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6. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘
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7. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
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8. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
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9. ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.’
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10. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
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11. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
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12. ‘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.’
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13. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’
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14. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
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15. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
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16. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
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17. ‘We have seen better days.’
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18. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’
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19. ‘My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.’
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20. ‘In time we hate that which we often fear.’
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Dr Bob Griffin
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