41 Quotes & Sayings By Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe was the most famous English playwright of the sixteenth century. His most famous works are Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, and The Jew of Malta.

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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my Love, And we...
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Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove Christopher Marlowe
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Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? Christopher Marlowe
Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell...
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Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth. Christopher Marlowe
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This tottered ensign of my ancestors Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea Whereof we got the name of Mortimer, Will I advance upon these castle-walls. Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston! Christopher Marlowe
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Accursed be he that first invented war. Christopher Marlowe
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Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time’s golden thigh Upholds the flowery body of the earth In sacred harmony, and every birth Of men and actions makes legitimate, Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III Christopher Marlowe
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Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall. Christopher Marlowe
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I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. Christopher Marlowe
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Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.( Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) Christopher Marlowe
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Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. Christopher Marlowe
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Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe
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The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike Christopher Marlowe
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Make me immortal with a kiss. Christopher Marlowe
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Hell is just a frame of mind. Christopher Marlowe
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Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.( It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.) Christopher Marlowe
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. Christopher Marlowe
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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell. Christopher Marlowe
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Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven. Christopher Marlowe
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YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace, Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils, Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name, Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall, And welter in thy gore. L A N C A S T E R: Monster of men! That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to arms And bloody wars so many valiant knights; Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death! King Edward is not here to buckler thee. Christopher Marlowe
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But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1 Christopher Marlowe
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter     When he appear'd to hapless Semele;     More lovely than the monarch of the sky     In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms Excerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
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Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. Christopher Marlowe
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What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Christopher Marlowe
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He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. Christopher Marlowe
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What virtue is it that is born with us? Much less can honor be ascribed thereto, Honor is purchased by the deeds we do. Believe me, Hero, honor is not won, Until some honorable deed be done.---- From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I Christopher Marlowe
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! Christopher Marlowe
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FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night! Christopher Marlowe
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Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! - Christopher Marlowe
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And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. Christopher Marlowe
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To undo a Jew is charity and not sin. Christopher Marlowe
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Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield. Christopher Marlowe
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Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales. Christopher Marlowe
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. Christopher Marlowe
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? Christopher Marlowe
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate. Christopher Marlowe
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe
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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. Christopher Marlowe