Shakespeare Quotes by Character Multiple Choice

Who said it? Hamlet or Pericles? Put your knowledge of Shakespeare quotes to the test.

Due to multiple versions of the texts, words might be slightly different than what you are familiar with.

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1. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra ✓

Lear, King Lear ✓

Philip, King John ✓

Malvolio, Twelfth Night ✓

2. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Henry IV, Henry IV Part Two ✓

Macbeth, Macbeth ✓

Caesar, Julius Caesar ✓

Richard III, Richard III ✓

3. This above all; to thine own self be true.

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth ✓

Jaques, As You Like It ✓

Polonius, Hamlet ✓

Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet ✓

4. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone.

Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet ✓

Luciana, Comedy of Errors ✓

Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ✓

Celia, As You Like It ✓

5. All that glisters is not gold.

Fool, King Lear ✓

Prince of Morocco, Merchant of Venice ✓

Claudius, Hamlet ✓

Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor ✓

6. If music be the food of love, play on.

Oberon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ✓

Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona ✓

Octavia, Antony and Cleopatra ✓

Orsino, Twelfth Night ✓

7. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Regan, King Lear ✓

Duke Senior, As You Like It ✓

Feste, Twelfth Night ✓

Cinna the Poet, Julius Caesar ✓

8. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

Escalus, Romeo and Juliet ✓

Richard III, Richard III ✓

Henry VI, Henry VI Part Three ✓

Gloucester, King Lear ✓

9. Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.

Portia, The Merchant of Venice ✓

Goneril, King Lear ✓

Cressida, Troilus and Cressida ✓

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth ✓

10. We are such stuff as dreams are made on.

Coriolanus, Coriolanus ✓

Prospero, The Tempest ✓

Shylock, The Merchant of Venice ✓

Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ✓

11. Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound.

Macbeth, Macbeth ✓

Ophelia, Hamlet ✓

Edmund, King Lear ✓

Pericles, Pericles ✓

12. I pray you do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Rosalind, As You Like It ✓

Lavinia, Titus Andronicus ✓

Romeo, Romeo and Juliet ✓

Desdemona, Othello ✓

13. Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew ✓

Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet ✓

King John, King John ✓

Arcite, Two Noble Kinsmen ✓

14. I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Ghost, Hamlet ✓

Belarius, Cymbeline ✓

Lear, King Lear ✓

Malvolio, Twelfth Night ✓

15. Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war; that this foul deed shall smell above the earth.

Antonio, The Merchant of Venice ✓

Mark Antony, Julius Caesar ✓

Prospero, The Tempest ✓

Richard II, Richard II ✓

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