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From a Dickens play: 'The least said - soonest mended'
A: Great Expectatations ; B: Dombey and Son ; C: The Pickwick Papers
C
'I say we will have no more marriages.'
A: Seven Brides for Seven Grooms ; B: Hamlet ; C: Pygmalian (My Fair Lady)
B
'Dressed in a little brief authority.'
A Shakesperian play - A: As You Like It ; B: Measure for Measure ; C: Henry V
B
'Kiss me Kate.'
A: The play of that name 'Kiss me Kate' ; B: The Taming of the Shrew ;C: Love's Labour's Lost
B
'Why this is very midsummer madness.'
A: A Midsummer's Night Dream ; B: Macbeth ; C: Twelth Night
C
'I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.'
A George Bernard Shaw play. A: Major Barbara ; B: Pygmalion ; C: Candida
A
'An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.'
A: Candida ; B: Major Barbara ; C: Man and Superman
C
'He who has never hoped can never despair.'
A: George Bernard Shaw's Anthony and Cleopatra ; B: Shakespeare's play of that name ; C: Shaw's Candida
A
'One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.'
An Oscar Wilde play. A: A Woman of No Importance ; B: An Ideal Husband ; C:Lady Windemere's fan
A
'All women become like their mothers ... No man does.'
An Oscar Wilde play. A: An Ideal Husband ; B: Lady Windemere's Fan ; C: The Importance of Being Ernest
C
The definition of a critic: 'A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.'
An Oscar Wilde play: A: The Importance of Being Ernest; B: Lady Windemere's Fan C: A Woman of No Importance
B
'Certain women should be struck regularly
A Noel Coward play: A: Private Lives ; B: Present Laughter ; C: Relative Values
A
'It's extraordinary how potent cheap music is.'
A Noel Coward play: A: Present Laughter ; B: Relative Values ; C: Private Lives
C
'There is no love sincerer than the love of food.'
A George Bernard Shaw play: A: Man And Superman ; B:Heartbreak House ; C:Candida
A
'I am only a beer teetotaller - not a champagne teetotaller.'
A George Bernard Shaw play: A: The Devil's Disciple ; B: The Doctor's Dilemma C: Candida
C
'The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.'
A G. Bernard Shaw play: A: Man and Superman ; B: Candida ; C: The Devil's Disciple
C
(Shakespeare) 'I know how to curse!'
A: Macbeth ; B: Hamlet ; C: The Tempest
C
(Alan Bennett) 'Life is rather like a tin of sardines.'
A: Forty Years On ; B: Beyond the Fringe ; C: An Englishman Abroad
B
From which Shakespeare play comes "Murder most foul" ?
A: Macbeth ; B: Hamlet ; C: Julius Caesar ;
B
From what play comes "Oh yes? And Adam was a gardener!"
A: Man and Superman ; B: Candida ; C: Henry VI part 2 ;
C
From which Henrich Ibsen play is " The minority is always right."
A: Wild Duck ; B: Peer Gynt ; C: An Enemy of the People ;
C
'I've got a little list!' (Gilbert & Sullivan musical)
A: The Mikado ; B: HMS Pinafore ; C: Iolanthe
A
'A policeman's lot is not an 'appy one!'
(Gilbert & Sullivan) A: The Mikado ; B: HMS Pinafore ; C: Pirates of Penzance.
C
'I have a song to sing - O!'
(Gilbert & Sullivan) A: HMS Pinafore ; B: Iolanthe ; C: Yeoman of the Guard.
C
'Take a pair of sparkling eyes.' (Gilbert & Sullivan)
A: The Mikado ; B: The Gondoliers ; C: Yeoman of the Guard.
B
You could lose an argument but it does not affect the truth.
A: Bernard Shaw's Candida ; B: Shakespeare's Othello ; C: Peter Carey's Tax Inspector ;
C
Who am I - 24601!
A: Miss Saigon ; B: Prisoner of Zenda ; C: Les Miserables ;
C
They think that anyone who's dressed in blue is theirs to muck about - degrade YOU WON'T DEGRADE ME YOU APES!
A: The Boys in Blue ; B: Chips with everything ; C: The Misanthrope ;
B
I don't give a hoot about posterity. Why should I worry about what people think of me when I'm dead as a doornail?
From which Noel Coward play - A: Present Laughter ; B: Private Lives; C: Sweet Innocence ;
A
It's a Jewish medieval torture - Liver and Cabbage for dinner!
A: Kvetch by Stephen Berkoff ; B: Barmitzvah Boy by Jack Rosenthal ; C: Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon ;
C
From which Ayckbourn play is " The tragedy of my life. Norman Dewers - gigolo and assistant librarian. "
A: Absent Friends ; B: Invisible Friends ; C: Table Manners ;
C
Oh I'd love to have a hard skin in that wonderful dull green colour - a skin that looks decent naked without any hair on it - like theirs.
A: The Elephant Man ; B: The Madness of George III ; C: Rhinoceros ;
C
Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
A: Pygmalion ; B: Doctor Doolittle ; C: Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead ;
A
Faith healing - a craft without an apprenticeship; a ministry without responsibility; a vocation without a ministry.
A: The Hippies ; B: Faith Healer ; C: The Gift ;
B
What treasure uncle?
A: Candida ; B: Complete Works of Shakespeare - abridged! ; C: Henry V ;
C
He is a dreamer; let us leave him : pass.
A: Midsummer Night's Dream ; B: Christmas Carol ; C: Julius Caesar ;
C
I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.
A: Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra ; B: Shaw's play of the same name ; C:Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ;
C
Gin was mother's milk to her.
A: Merry Wives of Windsor ; B: Candida ; C: Pymalion ;
C
From which Shakespeare play comes " He doth nothing but talk of his horse. "
A: Richard III ; B: Merchant of Venice ; C: Henry V ;
B
One can survive anything nowadays - except death.
A: A Woman of No Importance ; B: Candida ; C: The Importance of Being Earnest ;
A
Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
A: The Importance of Being Earnest ; B: Lady Windermers's Fan ; C: Pygmalion ;
B
Music is the Brandy of the damned.
A: A Woman of No Importance ; B: Pygmalion ; C: Man and Superman ;
C
From which Shakespeare play comes " A pair of star-cross'd lovers. "
A: Romeo and Juliet ; B: Measure for measure ; C: The Tempest ;
A
From which Shakepeare play comes " A sad tale's best for winter. "
A: Winter's Tale ; B: Taming of the Shrew ; C: Cymbeline the Great ;
A
From which Shakespeare play comes the immortal line " Exit - pursued by a bear."
A: Winter's Tale ; Two Gentlemen of Verona ; C: Timon of Athens ;
A
From which Shakespeare play comes " 'Tis a naughty night to swim in. "
A: King John ; B: King Lear ; C: Measure for Measure ;
B
From which Shakespeare play comes " I could brain him with his lady's fan! "
A: King Henry IV part I ; B: The Tempest ; C: Othello ;
A
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