The only reason i knew that one is from an Eagles song from their Hell Freezes Over album called "Get Over It." The line is "...old Billy was right...let's kill all the lawyers...kill 'em tonight." I never knew who the heck Old Billy was...turns out "Old Billy" is Billy Shakespere. Weird.
shocked, but maybe you have not had experiences with weird people that love that quote and really want to murder lawyers (of course they will call one once they are caught) lol
Great quiz, I surprised myself getting 18/20 but many of these quotes although coined by Shakespeare have become sayings. I missed the "kill the lawyers" and missed 'Dreams' although I have heard it often enough.
Henry VI was also speaking 100 years or so before English was used in the Americas so probably fair to say that the American English term comes from the same source.
Whilst understandable, 'glitter' should probably not be allowed as a type-in, in a quotations quiz, where the idea is to get the quote right. I know glister is an archaic word for glitter, but it's still the only word that should be acceptable as the answer.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Shakespeare once sued a man for 35 shillings (£175 today) and 10 pennies (£5) over grain he sold to the man and the debt not being repaid. The 10 pennies were apparently tacked on by Shakespeare's lawyer as damages. That amount is not nothing, but it does feel a bit overly litigious considering his success by this point in his life. I suspect there's more to it than a simple debt, but it's an interesting juxtaposition given the quote.
You could make a nice quiz out of pop culture titles that are quotes from Shakespeare. There's (1) "To Be or Not To Be," a comedy starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (remade by Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft), (2) Kurt Weill's and Ogden Nash's song "Speak Low," which borrows from a line by Don Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing," (3) Huxley's novel "Brave New World" ("The Tempest"), (4) the miniseries "Band of Brothers" ("Henry V"), and "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace ("Hamlet"), just to name a few.
took this quiz with my mom got 100% then took with my sister and got 75%. she dumb as all get out. I'm talking about my sister not my mom. lol pronouns.... they used to mean something different.... now kids these days... im getting old...
The actual quote from Romeo and Juliet is "That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." The way it's misquoted here would not fit into the iambic pentameter it was written in. But people say it that way all the time! :)
Fun quiz! For anyone who'd like to try an extended Shakespearian quote, I made a quiz of the entire "To be or not to be" soliloquy here - https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/316518/to-be-or-not-to-be-full-text
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe topful
Of direst cruelty, if that's all right with the rest of you.
"Now is the winter of our discount tents"
A classic !
"You painted barber pole!"
Shakespeare once sued a man for 35 shillings (£175 today) and 10 pennies (£5) over grain he sold to the man and the debt not being repaid. The 10 pennies were apparently tacked on by Shakespeare's lawyer as damages. That amount is not nothing, but it does feel a bit overly litigious considering his success by this point in his life. I suspect there's more to it than a simple debt, but it's an interesting juxtaposition given the quote.