QUIZ: Sound and Fury, or Fire and Fury?

Faulkner? Shakespeare? Or senile lunatic with the keys to the nukes?

1.     “A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.”

2.     “And I another, so weary with disasters, tugged with fortune, that I would set my life on any chance to mend it, or be rid of it.”

3.     “Now I won’t say ‘cancel the election,’ they should cancel the election. …They always call me a dictator.”

4.     “Fare thee well, lord, I would not be the villain that thou think’st, for the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp, and the rich east to boot.” 

5.     “Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”

6.     “I did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there.”

7.     “If chance will have me king, why, chance, may crown me without my stir.”

8.     “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”

9.     “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”

10.  “Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it!”

11.  “Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.”

12.  “[I’ve removed] hand-picked radical left Marxists prosecutors from the Department of Justice like deranged Jack ‘sick’ Smith. He’s a sick son of a bitch.”

13.  “Because no battle is ever won, he said. They are not even fought. The field reveals to man only his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

14.  “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that….I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.”

15.  “Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money, but that dip is peanuts compared to what it’s gone up.”

16.  “I’ll fight till from my bones be hacked. Give me my armor!”

17.  “[North Korea] will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. …They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which the world has never seen before.”

18.  “Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.”

19.  “[Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.”

20.  “I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The world is not secure unless we have complete and total control of Greenland. Thank you!”

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner: 1, 5, 11, 13, 18

Macbeth by William Shakespeare: 2, 4, 7, 10, 16, 19

Fire and Fury, from U.S. President Donald Trump: 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20