William Shakespeare Quotes About Choices

• There's small choice in rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Liberty

  1593 Hortensio to Gremio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act1, sc.1, l.133-4.

• Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Choices, Sorrow, Library

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34

• There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Rotten

• Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
  Nor age so eat up my invention,
  Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
  Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
  But they shall find awaked in such a kind
  Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
  Ability in means, and choice of friends,
  To quit me of them throughly.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Blood, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.366

• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

• Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
  And could of men distinguish her election,
  Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Men, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

• And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

• Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

• Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Art, Queens

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Loss, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

• Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

  William Shakespeare

  Choices, Coward, Affection

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

• A sympathy in choice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Choices

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

• Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Choices, Rich

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.215

• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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