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Quiz about Familiar Quotations  Women
Quiz about Familiar Quotations  Women

Familiar Quotations? - Women Trivia Quiz


I will supply a quotation, generally using Bartleby.com, the "Penguin," and "Oxford" quotations about women and four choices. Simply select who said it.

A multiple-choice quiz by mnbates. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
mnbates
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
127,095
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
617
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Question 1 of 10
1. "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where." Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals." Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "A perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "O Woman! In our hours of ease/ Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "For the female of the species is more deadly than the male." Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can." Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "A lady's imagination is very rapid. It jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Stay far hence, far hence, forbidding women!" Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

Answer: George Eliot

From "The Mill on the Floss," book six chapter three. An unusual sentiment from one who many women consider a feminist.
2. "There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where."

Answer: George Gordon, Lord Byron

From "Don Juan," verse six, line 12. Contrast with Shakespeare's "Julius Ceasar" act 3 line 217.
3. "Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

Answer: Oscar Wilde

From "The Picture of Dorian Gray," chapter one line four.
4. "A perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command."

Answer: William Wordsworth

From "She Was a Phantom of Delight." Sounds almost masochistic.
5. "O Woman! In our hours of ease/ Uncertain, coy, and hard to please."

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

From "Marmion," he does, however, go on to say, "When pain and anguish wring the brow/ A minstering angel, thou."
6. "For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

"When hunter meets with husband, each confirms the others tale."
From the excellent "The Female of the Species."
7. "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

From "Man and Superman" act II. A fairly ascerbic play.
8. "A lady's imagination is very rapid. It jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Answer: Jane Austen

From "Pride and Prejudice," said by Mr Darcy.
9. "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies."

Answer: "The Bible - Proverbs"

"Proverbs" 31:10, but compare with "Proverbs" 12:4, "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."
10. "Stay far hence, far hence, forbidding women!"

Answer: Ovid

From "Amores": "Procul hinc, procul este, severae," if you prefer the Latin.
Source: Author mnbates

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