Christopher Marlowe famous quotes

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Steadfast #Steadfastness

All live to die, and rise to fall.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Fall

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Heaven #Hell

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Running #Time #Feet

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Earth #Fit #Burial

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Beauty #Ethics #Goodness

Things that are not at all, are never lost.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Lost

Make me immortal with a kiss.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Positive #Kissing

There is no sin but ignorance.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Ignorance #Sin

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Dance #Men #Feet

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Spring #Keys #Virtue

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Funny #Money

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Romantic #Beauty

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Atheist #Ignorance #Thinking

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

#Love #Life #Yield

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Men #Praying

All women are ambitious naturallie
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Women #Ambition #Ambitious

Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Hate #World #Should

Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Country #Wenches

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Life #Proud #Now And Then

Our swords shall play the orators for us.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Play

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Kings #Bravery #Triumph

Blood is the god of war's rich livery.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#War #Blood #Rich

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Heaven #World #Hell

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Hate #Lying #Fate

FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Country #Art #Stars

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Greatest Love #Fifty #Influence

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Mother #Veins #Rhyming

Live and die in Aristotle's works.
-- Christopher Marlowe

Confess and be hanged.
-- Christopher Marlowe

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Long #Devil #Spoons

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Simple #Thinking #Atheism

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Atheism #Suspicion #Mischief

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Kings #Grief #Men

More childish valorous than manly wise.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Wise #Manly

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Women #House #Empty

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Ocean #Fall #Soul

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Knaves #Fool #Dove

Infinite riches in a little room.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Littles #Riches #Rooms

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Wine #Water #Prize

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Comfort #Companionship #Miserable

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Laughing #Earth #Fool

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

#Book #Envy #Wish

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Divinity #Divine #Epithet

Love me little, love me long.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Life #Long #Littles

Accurst be he that first invented war.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Peace #War #Firsts

Strike up the drum and march courageously.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#War #March #Strikes

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Violence #Violent #Heard

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Stars #Astrology #Influence

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Excess #Causes #Wealth

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Joy #Heaven #World

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Money #Bargaining

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Love Is #Sight

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Justice #Steel #Quarrels

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Kings #Sunshine #Perfect

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Christian #Poverty #Wealth

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Sweet #Moving #Climbing

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Self #Wings #Heaven

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Honor #Deeds #Honour

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Unhappy #Spirit #Unhappiness

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

#Book #Oysters #Envy

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Love #Dream #Girlfriend

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Running #Stars #Moving

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Stars #Giving #Soul

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Self #Limits #Hell

What feeds me destroys me.
-- Christopher Marlowe

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Sweet #Perfect #Fruition

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Fall #Pleasure

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Sin #Deceiving #Everlasting

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Art #Men #Faustus

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Towers #Ships #Faces

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my 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

#Soul #Comfort #Kingdoms

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

#Cutting #Night #Blood