I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe
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  2. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3. It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and... - Deb Caletti

  4. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,... - Jane Austen

  5. Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. - E. Lockhart

More Quotes By Christopher Marlowe
  1. Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

  2. Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. 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!

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