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For centuries, old Billy Boy has been used shamelessly by nebbish professors whose primary goal is to terrorize uninterested students that would sooner train for a marathon than studiously analyze one of his plays. But his influence on modern language is undeniable, and I bet people conversationally employ far more phrases attributable to The Bard of Avon than they realize. Let's see how much you were able to absorb, retain and assimilate. The following quotations have been extracted from four of Shakespeare's most famous (and commonly studied) plays. If you can couple the correct quote with the correct play, you can justifiably refer to yourself as a "Shakespeare wiz"...who wouldn't want bragging rights of that caliber?

Question 1

"That but this blow/Might be the be-all and the end-all"





Question 2

"Brevity is the soul of wit."





Question 3

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without/Merit and lost without deserving."





Question 4

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





Question 5

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."





Question 6

"I must be cruel only to be kind."





Question 7

"Trifles light as air/Are to the jealous confirmations strong/As proofs of holy writ."





Question 8

"I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."





Question 9

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."





Question 10

"But I have that within which passeth show-/These but the trappings and the suits of woe."