In the olden days, English-speaking people owned two books: the Authorised Version of the Bible, and the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Sometimes, they got the two mixed up, and they often considered both to be authoritative.

Can you sort out these quotes? Did Shakespeare say it, or is it in the Bible?

1. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
2. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
3. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
4. If music be the food of love, play on.
5. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
6. He that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy.
7. He led captivity captive….
8. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
9. Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
10. Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Okay, that was mean. No wonder those people got the two book confused. Click on the picture for the answers.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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