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Lines from Shakespeare plays are often misquoted, but provide the basis for many everyday phrases. Can you name the plays that the following quotes are taken from?

 

"The course of true love never did run smooth"
A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
Hamlet

 

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
As You Like It

 

"Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this sun of York"
Richard III

 

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!"
Henry V

 

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
Macbeth

 

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
Julius Caesar

 

‘I  am a man more sinned against than sinning.’
King Lear