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Memorable Quotes Trivia Quiz

I've provided some quotes that are interesting. Your task is to identify the author of the quote or the work from which it comes.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
21,651

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1568

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'Years from now when you talk of this - and you will - be kind' Hint

Picnic

Tea and Sympathy

The Children's Hour

Golden Boy

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' Hint

Arthur Miller

Edward Albee

Tennessee Williams

Eugene O'Neill

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'You Can't Go Home Again' Hint

Thomas Wolfe

F Scott Fitzgerald

James Agee

Sinclair Lewis

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Youth is the one thing that is worth having' Hint

Jonathan Swift

Mark Twain

Voltaire

Oscar Wilde

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'A beautiful woman is a blessing from heaven, but a good cigar is a smoke' Hint

John Steinbeck

Rudyard Kipling

Ernest Hemingway

T.S. Eliot

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Truth is beauty'. 'Beauty is truth' Hint

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

John Keats

William Wordsworth

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'We loved and we loved for as long as we could Till the love was loved out in us both. But our marriage is dead when the pleasure has fled Twas pleasure that made it an oath' Hint

e.e. cummings

Carl Sandburg

Richard Lovelace

John Dryden

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who is credited with writing the lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne'? Hint

John Clare

Robert Burns

Edmund Spenser

William Blake

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Drink to me only with thine eyes' Hint

John Webster

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'The dog barks, but the caravan moves on' is a a clever proverb. What author borrowed from it for the title of one of his books? Hint

John Updike

JohnO'Hara

Dylan Thomas

Truman Capote

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Years from now when you talk of this - and you will - be kind'

Answer: Tea and Sympathy

Dramatic moment in Robert Anderson's play

2. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'

Answer: Tennessee Williams

Familiar line from 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

3. 'You Can't Go Home Again'

Answer: Thomas Wolfe

From the novel of the same name. Has any line ever been more frequently used?

4. 'Youth is the one thing that is worth having'

Answer: Oscar Wilde

A list of Wilde's witticisms would take forever.

5. 'A beautiful woman is a blessing from heaven, but a good cigar is a smoke'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Many pictures of Kipling show him enjoying his cigar

6. 'Truth is beauty'. 'Beauty is truth'

Answer: John Keats

Perhaps his most famous lines

7. 'We loved and we loved for as long as we could Till the love was loved out in us both. But our marriage is dead when the pleasure has fled Twas pleasure that made it an oath'

Answer: John Dryden

Dryden: Always clever, always caustic

8. Who is credited with writing the lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne'?

Answer: Robert Burns

Happy New Year.

9. 'Drink to me only with thine eyes'

Answer: Ben Jonson

Again: Happy New Year

10. 'The dog barks, but the caravan moves on' is a a clever proverb. What author borrowed from it for the title of one of his books?

Answer: Truman Capote

'The Dogs Bark' is the name of a collection of short works by Capote.

Source: Author robert362

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