Pope John Paul II said 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast'
A: True ; B: False - it was Alexander Pope ; C: False - it was John Paul I
B
Rudyard Kipling wrote: 'A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a Smoke.'
A:True ; B:False - he said 'cigarette' ; C: False - it was Charles Dickens
A
This quote comes from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1: 'Discretion is the better part of valour.'
A: True ; B: False - it is a saying/proverb ; C: False - it was in part 2
A
The quote 'Beam me up Scottie' was never actually said on Star Trek
A: True ; B: False
A
Naopleon said 'An army marches on its stomach.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Wellington ; C; False - It is only attributed to Napoleon
C
Oscar Wilde said at the customs desk in New York airport: 'I have nothing to declare except my genius.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Mark Twain ; C: False - It wasn't in New York
A
Mozart wrote in the end of one of his string concertos 'Must it be? It must be.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Beethoven ; C: False - It wasn't a string concerto
B
Rudyard Kipling said 'O North is North and South is South; and never the twain shall meet.'
A: True ; B: False - It wasn't Rudyard Kipling ; C: False - He used East and West
C
Peter Ustinov said 'The good thing about history is that it is adaptable.'
A: True ; B: False
A
This quote is from 1 Timothy: 'Money is root of all evil.'
A: True ; B:False - It was from 2 Timothy ; C: False - It is a misquote
C
William Cowper said 'God moves in mysterious ways.'
A: True ; B: False - It is from the Old Testament ; C: False - It is from the New Testament
A
King James 1 said 'He was the wisest fool in Christendom.'
A: True ; B: False - It was said by Henri IV of James I ; C: False - it was James II
B
Caesar himself said 'Caesar's wife must be beyond suspicion.'
A: True ; B: False - It is a proverb ; C: False - It was Augustus Caesar
A
This appeared in Punch (Uv'sholom) Magazine: 'What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident? Absence of body!'
A: True ; B: False
A
This appeared in Punch Magazine: 'A dead magazine is worth three living poets.'
A: True ; B:False
B
Christopher Marlow wrote 'Fair blows the wind for France.'
A: True ; B: False - It wasn't Marlow ; C: He said 'for England.'
A
Lenin said 'The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.'
A:True ; B:False - It is a misquote ; C: False - Stalin said it
B
Mark Twain said 'There are three kinds of lies - lies - damn lies and statistics.'
A: True ; B: False - It is a misquote ; C:False - Benjamin Disraeli said it
C
Abe Lincoln said 'Keep baseball going. The country needs it.'
A: True ; B: False - it is a misquote ; C: False - someone else said it
B
George Washington said 'I cannot tell a lie.'
A: True ; B: False - It was a lie itself!
B
Neil Armstrong said 'That's one step for man one giant leap for mankind.'
A: True ; B: False - It wasn't Armstrong ; C: False - He said 'a man'
C
Winston Churchill said 'I have nothing to offer but blood sweat and tears.'
A: True ; B: False - The word 'toil' has been missed out ; C:False - He never said it at all
B
Julius Caesar's last words were "Et tu Brute?"
A: True ; B:False-it wasn't Brutus ; C:False - Shakespeare made it up ;
C
Adolf Hitler said in 1938 of Lichenstein "It is the last terratorial claim which I have to make in Europe "
A: True ; B: False - the quote was about Sudetenland ; C: False - he never said it;
B
Woody Allen said " I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything "
A: True ; B: False - he said impossibility ; C: False - it was Thomas Huxley ;
C
Aldous Huxley said " The Bitch-Goddess
A: True ; B: True - but he was quoting someone else ; C:False - he never said it
B
Oscar Wilde's last words were " Either that wallpaper goes or I do!"
A: True ; B:False-they were George Bernard Shaw's ; C: False - it was never said
A
George V's last words are reputed to have been "Bugger Brighton."
A: True ; B: False - they weren't his last words ; C: False - it was Bogner ;
C
Queen Elizabeth I said "I will make you shorter by a head!"
A: True ; B: False - it wasn't her ; C: False - it doesn't exist ;
A
Albert Einstein said "Genius is 50% inspiration and 50% persperation."
A: True ; B: False - there were different quantities ; C: False - it wasn't him ;
B
Herman Goebbels said "Hitler is a power-hungry fool;and I like that!"
A: True ; B: False - he said it about Mussolini ; C: False - no-one said it ;
C
King George III said"I may be mad - but I'm not stupid."
A: True ; B: False - it was James Stevenson ; C: False - it doesn't exist ;
C
Lenin said "Laws are meant to be broken."
A: True ; B: False - he said bent ; C: False - it wasn't him ;
C
The News of the World's slogan used to be "All human life is here."
A: True ; B: False - It was there ; C: False - it never existed ;
B
Napolean's last words were "Kiss me Hardy."
A: True ; B: False ;
B
Harpo Marx said "Either this woman is dead or my watch has stopped!"
A: True ; B: False ;
B
The first words spoken on the telephone by Alexander Bell were " Mary had a little lamb."
A: True ; B: False ;
B
Woody Allen reccomended that after the 10 commandments should be written " Candidates should not attempt more than six of these. "
A: True ; B: False - it wasn't him ; C: False - it was five ;
B
Arthur C Clarke said " Science-fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. "
A: True ; B: False - it wasn't him ; C: False - he said mysteries ;
B
Princess Anne said 'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Ian Flemming ; C:False - It was Lester Piggot.
B
Lenin said 'Corrupt the young people of a nation and the battle is won.'
A:True ; B: False - He said 'revolution' not 'battle' ; C: False - He never said it.
C
Duke of Wellington said 'Up guards and at 'em!'
A:True ; B: False - he said 'Up guards and boots on' ; C:False - He never said it.
C
Will Rogers said 'Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it!'
A: True ; B: False - Mark Twain said it ; C: False - No-one ever said it.
C
Neil Armstrong said 'That's one small step for a mam; one giant leap for mankind.'
A: True ; B: False - He said 'man' not 'a man' ; C: False - He never said it.
A
Woody Allen said " Remember - when the peacock struts his stuff he shows his backside to half the world. "
A: True ; B: False - it was the swan ; C: False - he never said it ;
C
William Blake said " No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. "
A: True ; B: False ;
A
A German proverb is " An old error is always more popular than a new truth. "
A: True ; B: False - it is a French proverb ; C: False - it's not a proverb ;
A
John Major said " Hindsight is not an attractive thing. "
A: True ; B: False ;
A
When John F Kennedy said " Ich bin ein Berliner " it meant " I am a jam doughnut! "
A: True ; B: False ;
A
This is a proverb: 'There is no fool like an old fool.'
A: True ; B:False
B
This is a Yiddish proverb: 'God watches over fools.'
A: True; B: False
A
Oscar Wilde said 'To be busy is man's only happiness.'
A: True ; B: False - He said 'To be working' ; C: False - It was Mark Twain
C
Russ Abbot said 'Happy is a child called Hamlet.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Shakespeare ; C: False - He never said it
C
Madonna said 'I guess I like to have fun.'
A: True ; B: False - It was Mae West ; C: False - She didn't say 'fun'!
A
Ovid - the Roman poet wrote " Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money? "
A: True ; B: False - he said War ; C: False - it wasn't him ;
A
James Schlesinger - US secretary of defense - once said " It ain't war that's hell; it's peace that's hell. Peace is a pain in the arse. "
A: True ; B: False ;
A
Adam Smith once warned " October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks; the others are July January September April November May March June December August and February. "
A: True ; B: False ;
B
Robert Maxwell said " Murdoch's taken quality newspapers out of the market and filled the hole with rubbish. "
A: True ; B: False ;
B
Margaret Thatcher once said " I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. "
