Can you name the source of each famous quote below—whether or not it is from Shakespeare?

created by druhutch
  • Enter an answer in the box below
  • Correctly named answers will show up below
  • Click any empty Famous Quote or Shakespeare or Not (S or N) to answer for that location
  • Some wrong answers will appear in red
  • Source: But is it Shakespeare? I
07:00
Show Missed Answers  
Famous QuoteShakespeare or Not (S or N)Source
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying.
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
She walks in beauty, like the night; of cloudless climes and starry skies.
The gods help them that help themselves.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
O my Luve's like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve's like the melodie, that's sweetly play'd in tune.
Even a fool may be wise after the event.
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!
Famous QuoteShakespeare or Not (S or N)Source
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
For mine own part, it was Greek to me.
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.
Physician, heal thyself.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
I am constant as the Northern Star, of whose true fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.
You might also like these games:
Literary Ships by Crewmember   Literature by The Simpsons   Shakespeare or Batman?
There are 10 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

...But Is It Shakespeare? II Quiz

  1. by druhutch
  • Created Sep 10, 2011 in Literature
  • Featured May 22, 2012
  • Game Plays 4,077

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....