Quiz: LITERARY QUOTATIONS: Q AND A

©   Charles Warner      24 October 2015 edition

Questions: Who said or wrote:-
  1 Eureka (Answer 1)
  2 Elementary (Answer 2)
  3 We are not amused (Answer 3)
  4 And so to bed (Answer 4)
  5 Let them eat cake (Answer 5)
  6 Believe it or not (Answer 6)
  7 Workers of the world, unite (Answer 7)
  8 But it does move (Answer 8)
  9 God bless us, every one (Answer 9)
10 No man is an island (Answer 10)
11 Hisory is bunk (Answer 11)
12 Which was to be proved (Answer 12)
13 Manners makyth man (Answer 13)
14 Take that nasty soup away (Answer 14)
15 Come up and see me sometime (Answer 15)
16 Curiouser and curiouser (Answer 16)
17 Not bloody likely (Answer 17)
18 Am I my brother's keeper? (Answer 18)
19 I shall hear in Heaven (Answer 19)
20 Father, I cannot tell a lie (Answer 20)
21 You can fool all of the people some of the time (Answer 21)
22 A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse (Answer 22)
23 Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated (Answer 23)
24 That unworthy hand! (Answer 24)
25 You will find the word Calais written on my heart (Answer 25)
26 Lord what fools these mortals be (Answer 26)
27 What an artist dies with me (Answer 27)
28 If you seek my monument, look around you (Answer 28)
29 I am just going outside and may be some time (Answer 29)
30 Never was so much owed by so many to so few (Answer 30)
31 Something will turn up (Answer 31)
32 Big Brother is watching you (Answer 32)
33 We are all going to Heaven and Van Dyke is of the company (Answer 33)
34 Please, sir, I want some more (Answer 34)
35 What a good boy am I (Answer 35)
36 Advice to persons about to marry - don't (Answer 36)
37 So little done - so much to do (Answer 37)
38 Not Angles but Angels (Answer 38)
39 To err is human, to forgive divine (Answer 39)
40 I can't see who's ahead - it's either Oxford or Cambridge (Answer 40)
41 My object all sublime I shall achieve in time (Answer 41)
42 I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts (Answer 42)
43 Let us drink to the queer old Dean (Answer 43)
44 Dr Livingstone, I presume? (Answer 44)
45 I awoke one morning and found myself famous (Answer 45)
46 Can you hear me Watson? (Answer 46)
47 Study the past if you would devine the future (Answer 47)
48 As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile (Answer 48)
49 George the Third ought never to have occurred (Answer 49)
50 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (Answer 50)
51 This is too butch for be (Answer 51)
52 Man is by nature a political animal (Answer 52)
53 When in doubt, win the trick (Answer 53)
54 There never was a good war or a bad peace (Answer 54)
55 Is this a dagger which I see before me? (Answer 55)
56 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet (Answer 56)
57 Mad is he? Then I wish he would bite some of my other generals (Answer 57)
58 England expects that every man will do his duty (Answer 58)
59 I think I could be a good woman if I had 5000 a year (Answer 59)
60 I want to be alone (Answer 60)
61 The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today (Answer 61)
62 Die my dear doctor? That is the last thing I mean to do (Answer 62)
63 And is there honey still for tea? (Answer 63)
64 So I awoke and behold it was a dream (Answer 64)
65 Whither thou goest I will go (Answer 65)
66 The lamps are going out all over Europe (Answer 66)
67 There is nothing half so much doing as simply messing about in boats (Answer 67)
68 England is a nation of shopkeepers (Answer 68)
69 I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world (Answer 69)
70 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (Answer 70)
71 I have nothing to declare except my genius (Answer 71)
72 Don't let poor Nellie starve (Answer 72)
73 You must never go down to the end of the town without consulting me (Answer 73)
74 Veni, Vidi, Vici (Answer 74)
75 Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour (Answer 75)
76 What shall we do with this bauble. There, take it away (Answer 76)
77 When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life (Answer 77)
78 Will noone rid me of this turbulent priest? (Answer 78)
79 If I can rid your town of rats, will you give me a thousand guilders? (Answer 79)
80 If the hill will not come to Mohamet, Mohamet will go to the hill (Answer 80)
81 Man, with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origins (Answer 81)
82 Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat (Answer 82)
83 Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese, toasted mostly (Answer 83)
84 The wind of change is blowing through the continent (Answer 84)
85 The executioner is very expert and my neck is very slender (Answer 85)
86 It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done (Answer 86)
87 Don't think nobody never made me, I 'spect I just growed (Answer 87)
88 The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton (Answer 88)
89 Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink (Answer 89)
90 I have found it impossible ... to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love (Answer 80)
91 Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands (Answer 91)
92 Why should I see her - she will only want me to give a message to Albert (Answer 92)
93 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer (Answer 93)
94 Soldier, thy need is greater than mine (Answer 94)
95 I have the heart and stomach of a king (Answer 95)
96 I would rather have written that poem, gentlemen, than take Quebec (Answer 96)
97 Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington (Answer 97)
98 There is time to finish the game and beat the Spaniards too (Answer 98)
99 Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh (Answer 99)
100 After all, what are birthdays, here today and gone tomorrow (Answer 100)

  1 Archimedes (back)
  2 Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (back)
  3 Queen Victoria (back)
  4 Samuel Pepys (back)
  5 Marie Antoinette (back)
  6 Robert Ripley (back)
  7 Karl Marx (back)
  8 Galileo (back)
  9 Charles Dickens, Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol (back)
10 John Donne (back)
11 Henry Ford (back)
12 Euclid (back)
13 William of Wykeham (back)
14 Heinrich Hoffman, Augustus, Strewelpeter (back)
15 Mae West (back)
16 Lewis Carroll, Alice (back)
17 George Bernard Shaw, Eliza Dolittle (back)
18 Cain (back)
19 Beethoven, last words (back)
20 George Washington (back)
21 Abraham Lincoln (back)
22 Richard III (Shakespeare's version) (back)
23 Mark Twain (back)
24 Thomas Cramner (back)
25 Mary Tudor (back)
26 Shakespeare, Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream (back)
27 Nero (back)
28 Christopher Wren (back)
29 Captain Oates (back)
30 Winston Churchill (back)
31 Charles Dickens, Mr Micawber, David Copperfield (back)
32 George Orwell (back)
33 Gainsborough, last words (back)
34 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (back)
35 Jack Horner (back)
36 Punch (back)
37 Cecil Rhodes (back)
38 Pope Gregory (back)
39 Alexander Pope (back)
40 John Snagge (back)
41 W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado (back)
42 Virgil (back)
43 Dr Spooner (back)
44 H. M. Stanley (back)
45 Lord Byron, after Childe Harold ... (back)
46 Alexander Graham Bell (back)
47 Confucius (back)
48 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Mrs Malaprop, The Rivals (back)
49 Edmund Clerihew Bentley (back)
50 Shakespeare, Mark Anthony (back)
51 Rudyard Kipling, Elephant's Child (back)
52 Aristotle (back)
53 Edmund Hoyle (back)
54 Benjamin Franklin (back)
55 Shakespeare, Macbeth (back)
56 St Augustine (back)
57 George II (back)
58 Nelson (back)
59 Thackeray, Becky Sharp, Vanity Fair (back)
60 Greta Garbo (back)
61 Lewis Carroll, The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass (back)
62 Lord Palmerston, last words (back)
63 Rupert Brooke, Grantchester (back)
64 Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (back)
65 Ruth (back)
66 Viscount Gray of Falloden (back)
67 Kenneth Grahame, Ratty, The Wind in the Willows (back)
68 Napoleon (back)
69 Socrates (back)
70 Voltaire (back)
71 Oscar Wilde (back)
72 Charles II, last words (back)
73 A.A. Milne, James James Morrison Morrison (back)
74 Julius Caesar (back)
75 Wordsworth (back)
76 Oliver Cromwell (back)
77 Dr Johnson (back)
78 Henry II (of Becket) (back)
79 Browning, The Pied Piper (back)
80 Francis Bacon (back)
81 Charles Darwin (back)
82 Herman Goering (back)
83 Robert Louis Stevenson, Ben Gunn, Treasure Island (back)
84 Harold McMillan (back)
85 Anne Boleyn (back)
86 Charles Dickens, Sidney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities (back)
87 H. B. Stowe, Topsy, Uncle Tom's Cabin (back)
88 The Duke of Wellington (back)
89 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (back)
90 Edward VIII (back)
91 J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (back)
92 Disraeli, attributed last words (back)
93 Thoreau (back)
94 Sir Philip Sidney (back)
95 Elizabeth I (back)
96 General Wolfe, of Gray's Elegy (back)
97 Noel Coward (back)
98 Sir Francis Drake (back)
99 Molly Malone (back)
100 A.A. Milne, Eeyore (back)