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Shakespeare... or the Bible?

Can you guess whether these quotes come from the works of William Shakespeare or from the Bible?
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Last updated: April 4, 2022
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First submittedApril 4, 2022
Times taken38,651
Average score73.3%
Rating4.51
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1. For the love of money is the root of all evil
1 Timothy 6:10
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2. Out, damned spot!
MacBeth
Shakespeare
Bible
3. Get thee to a nunnery
Hamlet
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Bible
4. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Henry IV
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Bible
5. There is no new thing under the sun
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Shakespeare
Bible
6. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Hamlet
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Bible
7. If you prick us, do we not bleed?
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare
Bible
8. Now is the winter of our discontent
Richard III
Shakespeare
Bible
9. Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:9
Shakespeare
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10. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall
Proverbs 16:18
Shakespeare
Bible
11. Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me
Matthew 19:14
Shakespeare
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12. Cry "Havoc!", and let slip the dogs of war
Julius Caesar
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13. A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Shakespeare
Bible
14. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
Matthew 5:38
Shakespeare
Bible
15. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Shakespeare
Bible
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19 Comments
GrammarBeane1
+18
Level 83
Apr 6, 2022
I got almost all of them by double checking if they fit into iambic pentameter. If only I didn't second guess myself, I would have had 100%
Fianchetto
+1
Level 77
Feb 15, 2023
That's how I checked mine!
christohwig
+3
Level 44
Apr 26, 2022
got them all, but I would have been concerned if I didn't
TjizzleDizzle
+2
Level 68
Apr 26, 2022
Never read the bible, never read Shakespeare....but had 14 out of 15. I am somewhat flabbergasted by this. xD
Nathaniel
+1
Level 75
Feb 25, 2024
Goes to show that the two aren't all that similar, innit?
Azerk
+1
Level 65
Apr 26, 2022
13/15 and I don't know a whole lot about either, nice
bostjan
+4
Level 71
Apr 26, 2022
I went to a small fundamentalist religious school, and we spent a semester studying Shakespeare. I guess this quiz was made for me.
lbjool
+2
Level 90
Apr 26, 2022
The money quote should be "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." (not "all evil"). This gets misquoted frequently.
ctleng76
+7
Level 65
Apr 26, 2022
I used to think this as well, until recently when I discovered that the King James version does read as "the root of all evil". It is one of only a few translations that read this way. Most other translations, including the NIV add the words "kinds of" or "sorts of". The idea is that coveting something you don't have is the real evil here, not money specifically.
nothankyouplease
+7
Level 62
Apr 26, 2022
A lot of Ecclesiastes in this quiz, interesting
Djilas
+2
Level 84
Nov 17, 2022
The best part of the Bible IMO.
quizzicalguy
+3
Level 67
Feb 21, 2024
Because it is an ancient book of poetry.
WindsOfGauldron
+3
Level 61
Apr 26, 2022
I made a very similar quiz in 2021. The title is even the same minus the ellipsis.

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/136522/shakespeare-or-the-bible

vermiciousknid
+3
Level 90
Apr 26, 2022
Yeah, I remember taking your version last summer. I thought this was the same quiz, at first. This one is much easier than yours though.
GlimGlam
+2
Level 29
Jan 13, 2025
Took it, great quiz, should be the 'hard' version of this one.
RJG
+1
Level 63
Feb 19, 2023
13/15 did rather well
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 75
Feb 21, 2024
There may be other persons who spell the Scottish play "MacBeth," but Shakespeare was not one of them.
DeadLeo2137
+1
Level 23
Feb 22, 2024
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth” is from hamurabi’s kodex
bigdawgjesse
+3
Level 48
Jan 14, 2025
Yes you're right. It is quoted though in the bible, but this is an out of context use. What it really says is "you have heard it said 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth', but I say..." so the quote in this quiz is misleading
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