Why is it that when we come to profound wisdom we find it so hard to distinguish between the ancient scriptures and the early modern stage? Both have been the very foundation of English morality and metaphor for centuries of cultural hegemony. Can you distinguish the secular script from the sacred inside the Shakespeare Bible Quiz.
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Bible Or Shakespeare Quiz Questions
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
- Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
- Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
- Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
- For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
- Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
- O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
- The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
- There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
- I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
- What's done cannot be undone.
- The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
- All that glisters is not gold.
- Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.