🇫🇷 Version française · 🇪🇸 Español
🎃 Halloween special: play the Halloween quiz →
🎄 Christmas special: play the Christmas quiz →
🎆 New Year special: play the New Year quiz →
Free Famous Quotes quiz: 75 trivia questions and answers — who said what?. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
Start this quiz →🖨️ Printable version (19 questions + answers)
From Gandhi to Wittgenstein, by way of George Bernard Shaw, this quiz explores famous quotes, their authors and sometimes the myths around them. A fun way to test your general knowledge.
This quiz currently has 75 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 15 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: William Shakespeare. This is the opening of Hamlet's famous soliloquy (Act III, Scene 1), written around 1600. It is arguably the most quoted line in all of world literature.
Answer: One — French proverb. This 16th-century French proverb simply means that being warned of a danger allows you to better prepare for it. An unwarned man is therefore still worth one, just with a blindfold on. The 'zero' answer was tempting but mathematically cruel.
Answer: Albert Einstein. Einstein again! It must be said that for someone who revolutionized physics by imagining thought experiments from his desk, with no lab or instruments, the line had a certain legitimacy. Nobel laureate and poet of the abstract.
Answer: Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein wrote this line in a letter to his son Eduard in 1930. A simple, vivid image typical of how he made profound truths accessible.
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre. This famous line is from Sartre's play 'No Exit' (1944). It is often misunderstood: Sartre wasn't saying other people are bad, but that it is their gaze that traps us.
Answer: Albert Einstein. This Einstein quote goes far beyond physics. It illustrates his ethical thinking and his stand against indifference, shaped by what he experienced as a German Jew under Nazism.
Answer: Marcel Proust. This beautiful line is taken from 'In Search of Lost Time', Marcel Proust's sprawling masterwork. It sums up his vision of literature as a tool for transforming how we see.
Answer: Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo spoke this line during a speech on education. It remains one of the most displayed quotes in French schools, so much so that many attribute it to Jules Ferry.
Answer: Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb and holder of over 1,000 patents, liked to emphasize hard work over innate talent. A lesson in productive humility.
Answer: William Arthur Ward. American author and writer William Arthur Ward is behind this sharp analysis of human psychology in the face of adversity.
Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The author of 'The Little Prince', ever the visionary, reminds us here that passion must come before technique. It's the basis of all modern management (and of any good cruise).
Answer: Jean Cocteau. Poet, filmmaker, and jack-of-all-trades, Cocteau loved playing with appearances. He reminds us here that reality is sometimes far more surprising than fiction.
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre. Although the movement was collective, Sartre was one of the most influential intellectuals to support these provocative slogans that marked a generation.
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson. An invitation to patience: immediate results aren't the only measure of success. Gardeners and creators alike know that time is an essential ingredient.
Answer: George Sand. George Sand, that free woman and prolific writer, had a very altruistic view of happiness. A fine lesson for our sometimes overly self-centered egos.
60 more questions are waiting for you in the quiz!