Questions: Who said or wrote:-
  1 April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land (Answer 1)
  2 All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (Answer 2)
  3 They shall not pass (Answer 3)
  4 The cook was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go she went (Answer 4)
  5 It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black (Answer 5)
  6 A hand-bag? (Answer 6)
  7 Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains (Answer 7)
  8 C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (Answer 8)
  9 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife (Answer 9)
10 Something nasty in the woodshed (Answer 10)
11 Everyone suddenly burst out singing (Answer 11)
12 Do you remember an inn, Miranda? (Answer 12)
13 There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight, Ten to make and the match to win (Answer 13)
14 They also serve who only stand and wait (Answer 14)
15 No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere (Answer 15)
16 The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair upon the Straits (Answer 16)
17 For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast, And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost (Answer 17)
18 This survival of the fittest (Answer 18)
19 In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love (Answer 19)
20 Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Answer 20)
21 Great God! This is an awful place (Answer 21)
22 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Answer 22)
23 Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for (Answer 23)
24 He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches (Answer 24)
25 I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man (Answer 25)
26 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? (Answer 26)
27 Gentlemen prefer blondes (Answer 27)
28 For the female of the species is more deadly than the male (Answer 28)
29 Glory be to God for dappled things (Answer 29)
30 None but the Brave deserve the Fair (Answer 30)
31 It was roses, roses all the way (Answer 31)
32 Look thy last on all things lovely (Answer 32)
33 A robin redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a rage (Answer 33)
34 Supercalifragilisticexpeallidocious (Answer 34)
35 Yes, I remember Adlestrop (Answer 35)
36 In this country we find it pays to shoot an Admiral from time to time to encourage the others (Answer 36)
37 If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly (Answer 37)
38 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying (Answer 38)
39 A man ... is so in the way on the house (Answer 39)
40 The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep (Answer 40)
41 All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music (Answer 41)
42 Four legs good, two legs bad (Answer 42)
43 Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive? (Answer 43)
44 Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am (Answer 44)
45 What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? (Answer 45)
46 If only we could go back to Moscow (Answer 46)
47 Reader, I married him (Answer 47)
48 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old (Answer 48)
49 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world (Answer 49)
50 Chips with everything (Answer 50)
51 Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison (Answer 51)
52 Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run (Answer 52)
53 I am worn to a ravelling (Answer 53)
54 Miss Otis regrets she's unable to dine today (Answer 54)
55 Work expands to fill the time available for its completion (Answer 55)
56 I don't want to belong to any club which will accept me as a member (Answer 56)
57 Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country (Answer 57)
58 I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording not thinking (Answer 58)
59 If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country (Answer 59)
60 Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad (Answer 60)
61 As a matter of fact, you know, I am rather sorry you should see the garden now, because, alas, it is not looking at its best. Oh, it doesn't compare to what it was last year (Answer 61)
62 Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl (Answer 62)
63 Oh Bernard muttered Ethel this is so sudden (Answer 63)
64 Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young (Answer 64)
65 Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? (Answer 65)
66 Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out (Answer 66)
67 I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and love of men, the sea (Answer 67)
68 They order, said I, this matter better in France (Answer 68)
69 "Why, That I can not tell", said he, "But 'twas a famous victory" (Answer 69)
70 I give unto my wife my second best bed (Answer 70)
71 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore" (Answer 71)
72 Men seldom make passes, At girls who wear glasses (Answer 72)
73 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Answer 73)
74 From the waterfall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water (Answer 74)
75 What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in (Answer 75)
76 Far and few, far and few, are the lands where the Jumbles live (Answer 76)
77 He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode madly off in all directions (Answer 77)
78 The man recovered of the bites, The dog it was that died (Answer 78)
79 My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language (Answer 79)
80 Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast (Answer 80)
81 Say not the struggle nought availeth .. (Answer 81)
82 I believe it is peace for our time .. peace with honour (Answer 82)
83 Money is like muck, not good except it be spread (Answer 83)
84 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Answer 84)
85 Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Answer 85)
86 We are not at war with Egypt, We are in an armed conflict (Answer 86)
87 Goodbye to all that (Answer 87)
88 Other people's babies - That's my life? Mother to dozens, And nobody's wife (Answer 88)
89 I was much too far out all my life. And not waving but drowning (Answer 89)
90 The buck stops here (Answer 80)
91 I lingered around them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. (Answer 91)
92 Contrary to general belief, I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless imposter, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor cars (Answer 92)
93 There is an art which ladies have/ With which I can't compete/ And that's the art of knowing/ How to pick out joints of meat (Answer 93)
94 Anno domini - that's the most fatal complaint of all in the end (Answer 94)
95 I think I shall be among the English poets after my death (Answer 95)
96 I am willing to love all mankind, except an American (Answer 96)
97 And so do I (Answer 97)
98 A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table, At least as far as he is able (Answer 98)
99 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction (Answer 99)
100 One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear (Answer 100)

  1 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (back)
  2 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (back)
  3 Marechal Petain (at Verdun) (back)
  4 H.H Munro, Saki (back)
  5 Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (back)
  6 Oscar Wilde, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (back)
  7 J.J. Rousseau, Contrat Social (back)
  8 Marechal Bosquet, The Charge of the Light Brigade (back)
  9 Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice (back)
10 Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (back)
11 Siegfried Sassoon, Everyone Sang (back)
12 Hilaire Belloc, Tarantella (back)
13 Sir Thomas Newbolt, Vitai Lampada (back)
14 Milton, sonnet on his blindness (back)
15 Emily Bronte (back)
16 Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (back)
17 Francis Thompson, At Lords (back)
18 Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology (back)
19 Tennyson, Locksley Hall (back)
20 P.B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (back)
21 Captain Scott, Diary of South Pole (back)
22 F.D. Roosevelt. First Inaugural address (back)
23 Ogden Nash (back)
24 G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman (back)
25 G. Meredith, Ordeal of Richard Peverel (back)
26 C. Marlowe, Dr Faustus (back)
27 Anita Loos (back)
28 Rudyard Kipling (back)
29 G.M. Hopkins, Pied Beauty (back)
30 Dryden, Alexander's Feast (back)
31 Browning, The Patriot (back)
32 Walter de la Mare, Farewell (back)
33 Blake, Auguries of Innocence (back)
34 R. Sherman/ P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins (back)
35 Edward Thomas, Adlestrop (back)
36 Voltaire, Candide (back)
37 G.K. Chesterton (back)
38 Robert Herrick (back)
39 E. Gaskell, Cranford (back)
40 Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods .. (back)
41 Walter Pater (back)
42 George Orwell, Animal Farm (back)
43 A.E. Houseman, A Shropshire Lad (back)
44 Rene Descartes, Discours de la methode (back)
45 W.H. Davies, Leisure (back)
46 Anton Checkov, Three Sisters (back)
47 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (back)
48 L. Binyon, For the Fallen (back)
49 W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming (back)
50 Arnold Weaker (back)
51 Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (back)
52 Mark Twain (back)
53 Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester (back)
54 Cole Porter (back)
55 C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law (back)
56 Groucho Marx (back)
57 John Kennedy, Inaugural address (back)
58 Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Diary (back)
59 E.M. Forster, What I Believe (back)
60 W.C. Fields (back)
61 Ruth Draper, Showing the Garden (back)
62 John Betjeman, Pot Pourri .. (back)
63 Daisy Ashford, The Young Visitors (back)
64 John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (back)
65 J. Thurber, Cartoon (back)
66 Thackeray, Vanity Fair (back)
67 Swinburne, The Triumph of Time (back)
68 Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (back)
69 Southey, Battle of Blenheim (back)
70 Shakespeare, will (back)
71 Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven (back)
72 Dorothy Parker (back)
73 Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress (back)
74 Longfellow, Hiawatha (back)
75 Lloyd George (back)
76 Edward Lear (back)
77 Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels (back)
78 Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad dog (back)
79 Gibbon, Autobiography (back)
80 Congreve, The Mourning Bride (back)
81 A.H. Clough (back)
82 Neville Chamberlain (back)
83 Bacon (back)
84 Lord Acton (back)
85 Edward Albee (back)
86 Anthony Eden (back)
87 Robert Graves, Autobiography (back)
88 A.P.Herbert (back)
89 Stevie Smith (back)
90 Harry Truman, on his desk (back)
91 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (back)
92 Richard Hannay, Buchan, The Thirty Nine Steps (back)
93 Pam Eyres (back)
94 James Hilton, Goodbye Mr Chips (back)
95 Keats (back)
96 Dr Johnson (back)
97 Thomas Hardy, Weathers (back)
98 R.L. Stevenson, Child's Garden of Verses (back)
99 General MacArthur (leaving the Philippines) (back)
100 J.B. Morton, Beachcomber (back)