Literary Quotes Trivia Questions
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What heavenly body did Mark Twain compare people to when he said everyone has a dark side they never show?
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moon
In poetry by Lord Byron, what word completes the line 'She walks in _____, like the night'?
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beauty
According to Charles Caleb Colton in 'Lacon,' what is described as 'the sincerest of flattery'?
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imitation
In which French city did the 15th-century poet Francois Villon claim there's no good speech save in?
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paris
Who is the author that said he left his capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium?
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f. scott fitzgerald
Which author of 'Tom Sawyer' said, 'There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, except Congress'?
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mark twain
According to Gertrude Stein, what 'is a this, is a this, is a this, is a this'?
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rose
Which author included the line 'One cannot have too large a party' in her novel 'Emma'?
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jane austen
What concept did the 19th century novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford declare to be 'in the eye of the beholder'?
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beauty
What should you do when someone calls you 'that' in chapter 2 of Owen Wister's 'The Virginian'?
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smile
According to Thomas Carlyle, a poet without which emotion is both a physical and metaphysical impossibility?
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love
Which author created the character Mr. Bumble who proclaimed, 'The law is a ass, a idiot'?
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charles dickens
In his 1597 work 'Religious Meditations,' Francis Bacon wrote that what 'is power'?
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knowledge
Who is the poet who wrote, 'Celery raw, develops the jaw, but celery stewed, is more quietly chewed'?
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ogden nash
In the work of W.S. Gilbert, what does skim milk masquerade as?
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cream
According to Poor Richard's Almanack, a fine genius in his own country is likened to what precious metal in the mine?
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gold
Which author of 'Orlando' said, 'Of all the great writers Jane is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness'?
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virginia woolf
In which 1945 play by Tennessee Williams does the quote 'Time is the longest distance between two places' appear?
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glass menagerie
What beverage did Henry Fielding describe as being sweetened by love and scandal?
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tea
Which novel contains the line: 'I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now'?
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jane eyre
Which writer, in his 1711 'Essay on Criticism', said, ''Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, but the joint force & full result of all'?
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alexander pope
What event did Carl Sandburg refer to in his quote, 'Sometime they'll give' one of these 'and nobody will come'?
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war
What word completes the line 'If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? -- with silence and' from the love poems category?
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tears
Who wrote the line about human speech, 'We long to make music that will melt the stars,' in 'Madame Bovary'?
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gustave flaubert
What did Longfellow call 'The Universal Language of Mankind'?
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music
Who is the author quoted in Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' as saying, 'You are all a lost generation'?
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gertrude stein
Which author referred to 'The Loved One' as 'a little nightmare produced by the... high living of a brief visit to Hollywood'?
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evelyn waugh
In which month did James Whitcomb Riley say 'strawberries melt on the vine' and the month is 'knee-deep'?
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june
According to Gustave Flaubert, what does one become when they cannot be an artist?
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critic
Which author remarked, 'I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul,' in reference to her 1962 novel 'Ship of Fools'?
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katherine anne porter
Which author stated, 'All art is quite useless,' in the book 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
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oscar wilde
Which author wrote the novel 'So Big' which includes the quote, 'Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it'?
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edna ferber
In a poem written in 1940, what country did U.S. poet Alice D. Miller refer to when she said, 'In a world where [it] is dead, I do not wish to live'?
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england
In the poem 'Sea Fever' by John Masefield, what four-letter word completes the line 'All I ask is a tall ___ and a star to steer her by'?
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ship
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