Shakespeare Lines and Quotes Trivia

1. In "King Lear", which villain says that "the wheel is come full circle"?

From Quiz And the Speaker Is....? Part III

Answer: Edmund

In Act V Scene 3, after defeating Edmund in a duel, Edgar identifies himself and reminds Edmund that the Wheel of Fortune, a central image in the play, keeps turning. Dying, Edmund responds: "Th' hast spoken right, 'tis true. / The wheel is come full circle, I am here." (V.3: 174-175)

From Quiz And the Speaker Is....? Part II

Answer: Rosalind

As a merry jest, the boy Ganymed (Rosalind in disguise) challenges Orlando to prove that he really loves the lady Rosalind by pretending to woo him. In Act IV Scene 1, just before Celia conducts a mock marriage ceremony, Ganymed/Rosalind asks Orlando: "Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?" (IV.1:123-124)

From Quiz And the Speaker Is....? Part I

Answer: Lady Macbeth

When Macbeth enters in Act III Scene 2, Lady Macbeth sees that he is tormented by fear after killing Duncan. She tells him that the past can't be changed: "Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: what's done is done," and that he should move forward and claim the crown. (III.2:11-12)

From Quiz He Said...She Said

Answer: Ophelia

In III. 3., Laertes suggests to Ophelia that Hamlet may have less than honorable intentions toward her and admonishes her to behave. Ophelia's response, in effect, tells her brother to tend to his own affairs: "...But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles [like] a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And reaks not his own rede." {And heeds not his own advice.} III. 3. 46-51. ["Riverside Shakespeare", 1974, p. 1147.]

From Quiz Why Did Shakespeare Say That?

Answer: Nice meant something different to Shakespeare than it does now

The word "nice" didn't mean the same thing to Shakespeare that it means to us. In Shakespeare's day, nice meant something along the lines of nit-picking, or trivial. In other words, Romeo was trying to convince Tybalt that their quarrel was a trifling thing of no importance. If Shakespeare had called you "a nice person," it would not have been a compliment! Nice is only one of many words that Shakespeare used that have changed in meaning over the centuries. It is often helpful to read a text that has annotations that explain these differences in meaning.

From Quiz Shakespeare Had Vampires?!

Answer: Julius Caesar

Contrary to common belief these were not Caesar's last words, in fact or in the play. It's not even his last line in the play. As he lies dying of multiple stab wounds inflicted by fellow senators (including his friend Brutus), Shakespeare writes for Caesar the macaronic line "Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar"; making "Then fall, Caesar" his last words, alive, in the play. Pedantic, I know, but handy trivia material. In Act IV Scene 3 Caesar appears as a ghost to Brutus where his final line in the play is "Ay, at Philippi". As for his actual last words, no one knows for certain; although eyewitness reports suggest they were probably spoken in Greek, not Latin.

From Quiz First Lines From Shakespeare

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's earliest works, estimated to have been written between 1591 and 1595, and first published in a quarto in 1597. It tells the tale of two "star-cross'd lovers" whose families, the Montagues and Capulets, are at war with each other. It has been adapted many times, including 1950's "West Side Story", a musical which transplants the action to New York, and the 1996 film, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, and updated the setting of the story, while still retaining Shakespeare's original dialogue.

From Quiz What Shakespeare Did For The English Language

Answer: Othello

In Act 3, Scene 3 Iago said: "O beware my lord of jealousy/It is the green-eyes monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on."

From Quiz To Thine Own Quote Be True

Answer: Hamlet

This quote was said when two clowns were digging Ophelia's grave. They unearth the skull of a former jester by the name of Yorick, and at that moment, Hamlet walks by with his friend, Horatio. The rest of the quote compares Hamlet's memories of the old jester to the sickening remains he has become. This quote originates from the play, 'Hamlet'.

From Quiz Mixed-Up Shakespeare

Answer: Richard II

It's actually John of Gaunt, saying "Methinks I am a prophet new inspir'd".

From Quiz What Shakespeare Play is this Quote From?

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy written between 1591 and 1595. Juliet says this quote in Act 2, Scene 2 after the Capulet party when she is alone on her balcony talking about Romeo. Juliet is Romeo's wife and one of the main protagonists of the play. She commits suicide towards the end of the play because she finds Romeo dead at her side.

From Quiz Fairly Simple Quotes From Shakespeare

Answer: King Henry V

Act III End of Scene VI: Speaker - Chorus This takes place the night before the battle of Agincourt, when Henry is walking around boosting his troops' morale. The English know they are vastly outnumbered, but they are reassured by Henry's care for them.

From Quiz From Start to Finish

Answer: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

All four are said in the last scene, upon finding Romeo and Juliet dead. The last speech, said by the prince, goes as follows: "A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

From Quiz All that Glitters...with William Shakespeare

Answer: The Merchant of Venice

This famous line is from act 2 scene 7 of "The Merchant of Venice." In this scene, the Prince of Morocco, one of many suitors, had to choose which casket of three (one of lead, one of silver, and one of gold) held the picture of the woman he hoped to marry, the beautiful Portia. He thought that anything less would be insulting, and so he chose the gold casket. Instead of Portia's picture, he found a picture of death. In the eye of death, it was written "All that glisters is not gold; / Often have you heard that told. / Many a man his life hath sold / But my outside to behold. / Gilded tombs do worms enfold." He left, crestfallen.

From Quiz A Big Shakespearean Bash

Answer: Sampson

This is said in the opening scene of "Romeo and Juliet" , when the servants are quarreling in the streets. Sampson is saying that he is more quickly moved to strike his enemy than Gregory, his buddy.

From Quiz Time For Shakespeare

Answer: Macbeth

Macbeth Act V Scene V This line is spoken by Macbeth himself after discovering that Lady Macbeth is dead. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."

From Quiz Finish the Quote: Richard III

Answer: winter

Opening line spoken by Richard.

From Quiz Will Power! Complete the quote!

Answer: improbable

III.iv.(142) - as spoken by Fabian to Sir Toby Belch. "Twelfth Night" is the last of Shakespeare's romantic comedies (written c. 1601)and is often regarded as the most perfect.

From Quiz Great Quotes From Shakespeare

Answer: Julius Caesar & Caesar & "Julius Caesar" & 'Julius Caesar' & "Caesar" & 'Caesar'

Caesar: Act III/scn.1/line 77 Caesar found out the hard way that friends are not always what they seem to be. His so-called friends stabbed him in the back, literally.

From Quiz Shakespearean Insults

Answer: All's Well That Ends Well

The clown says this to the Countess of Roussilon in 2. 2. 16-18

From Quiz Name That Shakespeare Quote!

Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Puck, in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', has completely messed things up by making both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena (they were previously both in love with Hermia) and so is mimicking their voices to each other so that they'll follow the voice, thinking they're going to fight each other. Puck then puts them all into an enchanted sleep.

From Quiz Name That Shakespeare Quote!

Answer: Titus Andronicus

In 'Titus Andonicus', probably Shakespeare's grossest (and one of his most popular in his own day) play, Tamora, captured queen of the Goths, is being held prisoner by Titus Andronicus. During the course of the play all her sons are killed. She is served a pie with (this is really gross) the chopped-up bits of two of her sons in it by Titus, and eats it. She is then killed.

From Quiz Who Says What In Shakespeare?

Answer: Horatio

In W.J.Craig 's compact Oxford Shakespeare edition of the Complete Works:Act V ,Scene Two, line 373.- Hamlet's mother dies first after drinking the poisoned cup. - Fortinbras is the foreigner who takes over Elsinore after Hamlet's death and organises the funeral. - Osric is a joke in the play.

From Quiz Think You Know Shakespeare?

Answer: King Lear

This was said to King Lear in act three while he was standing in the violent storm telling it to rage on and abuse him so that he could forget the abuses of his daughters.

From Quiz Shakespeare: First Or Last Lines

Answer: The Tempest

The line is spoken by Prospero.

From Quiz First Lines From Shakespeare

Answer: The Two Gentleman of Verona

One of The Bard's lesser known works.

From Quiz Quotes from Shakespeare's Plays

Answer: As You Like It

From Quiz Shake's Quote Quiz

Answer: Hamlet

Hamlet talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, also in the film "Withnail and I".

From Quiz Shakespeare

Answer: As You Like It

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