Contest 3

Famous quotations quiz

Match the authors with the following quotations.

Authors

Oscar Wilde, George Orson Welles, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Sir Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift

Quotations

1. "A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."
   
2. "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
3. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
4. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
5. "I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."
6. "Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
7. "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
8. "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
9. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
10. "As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
11. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
12. "The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
13. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
14. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
15. "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

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