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Unfamiliar Quotations

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"These are obscure quotations from famous people, or, in a few cases, well-known quotes from fairly obscure people."


1. Who said: "I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise."?
    Jackie Gleason
    Strom Thurmond
    George Burns
    Chauncey Depew


2. Who said: "I don't understand anything about the ballet. All I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."?
    Edgar Degas
    Irving Berlin
    Ed Sullivan
    Anton Chekov


3. Who said: "You can't expect a boy to be depraved until he has been to a really good school."?
    Noel Coward
    Evelyn Waugh
    H. H. Munro
    Robert Morley


4. Who said: "Education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."?
    John Lennon
    George H. W. Bush
    Bertrand Russell
    Henry James


5. When William Blake said, "This man was hired to depress art," about whom was he speaking?
    George Romney
    James Basire
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    Thomas Gainsborough


6. Who said: "Most of those who call themselves artists are, in reality, picture dealers, only they make the pictures themselves."?
    Jack Yeats
    Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Butler
    Winston Churchill


7. Who called the painting "The Slave Ship," by J. M. W. Turner: "A tortoise-shell cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes."?
    John Ruskin
    Mark Twain
    J. A. M. Whistler
    Emile Zola


8. "Who said: "They [Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso] are, in my belief, turning out the most Godalmighty rubbish that is to be found."?
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Alexander Woollcott
    Ernest Hemingway
    Leo Stein


9. Who said: "In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased, but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."?
    St. Augustine
    Voltaire
    Ethan Allen
    Sigmund Freud


10. Who said: "[Americans] are three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You can take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together, and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt-kickers of all time."?
    John Wayne
    P. J. O'Rourke
    Rush Limbaugh
    Al Gore


11. Of whom was John Randolph speaking when he said, "A being so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like rotten mackerel by moonlight, both shines and stinks."?
    Andrew Jackson
    Daniel Webster
    Martin Van Buren
    Henry Clay


12. Who said, "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."?
    Aphra Ben
    Ben Jonson
    Jonathon Swift
    Benjamin Franklin


13. Who said, "A misogynist is a man who hates women as much as women hate each other."?
    W. C. Fields
    Kingsley Amis
    Fred Allen
    H. L. Mencken


14. Who, during a tour of America in 1979, said to Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, "The Irish -- they're all pigs!"?
    Pope John Paul II
    Princess Margaret
    Lech Walesa
    Margaret Thatcher


15. Who said: "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."?
    Aldous Huxley
    Pablo Picasso
    Georges Clemenceau
    G. K. Chesterton


16. Who said: "Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."?
    Kathleen Windsor
    Jane Austen
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Edna St. Vincent Millay


17. Who said: "Any man who is under 30, and who is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brain."?
    Charlton Heston
    Winston Churchill
    Albert Einstein
    E.B. White


18. Who said: "No free man shall be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."?
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Thomas Jefferson
    Jerry Rubin
    George Will


19. Who was Jesse Jackson talking about when he said: "I can maybe work with him, but I know who he is and what he is. There's nothing this man won't do. He's immune to shame."?
    Newt Gingrich
    Saddam Hussein
    Mayor Daly
    Bill Clinton


20. To whom was W. C. Fields referring when he called her "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra."?
    Mae West
    Marion Davies
    Claudette Colbert
    Sophie Tucker


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