Who Said What? Match Quiz | 10 Questions

Answer: Katharine Hepburn

Despite her apparent low view of acting as a career, Katharine Hepburn was perhaps the most successful practitioner Hollywood has ever seen. She won four Best Actress Oscars between 1934 and 1982 -- in the first 90 years of the award no one else had managed more than two.

Other Hepburn quotes include: "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."

Answer: Edith Wharton

Born in 1862 Edith Newbold Jones in New York City during the American Civil War, Edith Wharton came from an "old money" family. Educated by private tutors and governesses, she began writing fiction and poetry as a young girl and was published for the first time at the age of 15. In 1921, she became the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel "The Age of Innocence".

Other Wharton quotes include: "There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time." "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Answer: Dame Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is perhaps the most famous of all writers of detective fiction: her works have sold more copies than anyone other than William Shakespeare and The Bible. The creator of such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, she also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery "The Mousetrap".

Other quotes from Agatha Christie include: "If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody." "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

Answer: Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in 1775, the daughter of the rector in the small village of Steventon in northern Hampshire where she lived for most of her life. Austen was 36 years old when her first novel, "Sense and Sensibility", was published. She published three more novels before her death at the age of just 41 in 1817, and a further two were published posthumously. Her works provide an insight and critique into the life of the British landed gentry in the latter part of the 18th century. Despite her very short writing career and relatively sparse body of work, she is acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in English history.

Other Jane Austen quotes include: "Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?" "Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."

Answer: Lucille Ball

Actress, model, comedienne, producer and film-studio executive, Lucille Désirée Ball was born in the city of Jamestown in the far southwestern corner of New York state. She is best-remembered today as the star of the self-produced sitcoms "I Love Lucy", "Here's Lucy" and "Life with Lucy". When she founded Desilu Studios in 1962, though, she became the first woman to run a major TV studio: and with considerable success too, as she produced some of the most popular and enduring series of the 1960s including "Star Trek" and "Mission Impossible".

Other Lucille Ball quotes include: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." "Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Answer: Mae West

Mary Jane West was born in Brooklyn NY in 1893. Actress, singer and comedienne, she is probably best remembered as a sex symbol whose career lasted across a remarkable seven decades. She began in vaudeville and became the queen of the double entendre before moving to Hollywood. In her heyday, she was one of the most controversial stars in Hollywood and the censors were not her favourite people: she even once went to jail standing up for her right to free speech. At the end of the 20th century, though, she was ranked #15 in the 'American Film Institute' poll of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.

Other Mae West quotes include: "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." "You're never too old to become younger." "Too much of a good thing is wonderful."

Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

A niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1884. On Saint Patrick's Day 1905, she married her fifth cousin, two years her senior, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With her husband serving four terms as President of the U.S. and the subsequent introduction of the two-term limit, she is and will probably always be the longest-serving First Lady in U.S. history. She was more than that, though, and her contribution to human rights led President Harry S Truman to call her the "First Lady of the World".

Other quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt include: "A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." "If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault." "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Answer: Ellen DeGeneres

Born in 1958 in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana, Ellen DeGeneres began as a stand-up comedienne, became the star of the sitcom "Ellen" in the 1990s and, since 2003, has hosted her own eponymous syndicated talk show. Along the way, she has appeared in numerous movies, has been a celebrity judge on "American Idol", and has hosted the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmy award shows.

Other entertaining quotes from Ellen DeGeneres include: "I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'" "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." "Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off." "The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble." "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." "I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."

Answer: Dorothy Parker

She was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 at her parents' summer beach cottage in Long Branch, New Jersey, but they rushed her back to their Manhattan apartment a few days later so that she would always be able to consider herself a true New Yorker. Part of the 'board of editors' when the "New Yorker" magazine was founded in 1925, Parker's first contribution appeared in the second issue and she quickly became known for her viciously humorous poems.

The US Postal Service honoured Parker by issuing a commemorative stamp in its 'Literary Arts' series on the 99th anniversary of her birth. She was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2014.

Other quotes from Dorothy Parker include: "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." "That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Answer: Fran Lebowitz

Born in 1950 in Morristown in central New Jersey, Fran Lebowitz has been described as "a modern-day Dorothy Parker". Expelled from high school, she was hired by Andy Warhol to write a column in "Interview" and there began her trademark sardonic social commentary on American life. Her first collection of essays, "Metropolitan Life", was published in 1978.

Other quotes from Fran Lebowitz include: "All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable." "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." "I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not." "In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra." "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." "Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."