famous quotes
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
source: - Christopher Marlowe, George Robinson (editor.) (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson].”, p.343
Topics: Love, Steadfast, Steadfastness, Steadfast Love
All live to die, and rise to fall.
source: - Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2015). “Edward II: With Related Texts”, p.73, Hackett Publishing
Topics: Fall
Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.524, Bloomsbury Publishing
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2000). “The Plays”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2012). “Complete Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation
Topics: Lost
source: - Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics
Topics: Love, Romantic, Beauty, Faustus, Cute Romantic
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
source: - The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)
source: - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)
Topics: Love, Life, Yield, Mountain Ranges, Mountains And Valleys
Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.
source: - Christopher Marlowe, E. E. Reynolds (2014). “Edward the Second”, p.14, Cambridge University Press
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
source: - "The Plays".
Topics: Life, Proud, Now And Then
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Topics: Kings, Bravery, Triumph, Persepolis
Topics: Heaven, World, Hell, Mephistopheles, Faustus
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
source: - 'Hero and Leander' (published 1598) First Sestiad, l. 167.
Topics: Hate, Lying, Fate, Love Or Hate
Topics: Country, Art, Stars, Mephistopheles, Faustus
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
Topics: Greatest Love, Fifty, Influence
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
Topics: Comfort, Companionship, Miserable
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (1981). “Doctor Faustus”, Signet Classics
Topics: Life, Long, Littles, Little Love
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
Topics: Love, Money, Bargaining, Love Of Money
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Topics: Love, Love Is, Sight, Deliberate
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Topics: Kings, Sunshine, Perfect, Happy Sunshine
source: - 'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7
Topics: Sweet, Moving, Climbing, Felicity, Always Moving
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
source: - Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics
Topics: Unhappy, Spirit, Unhappiness
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
source: - Hero and Leander First Sestiad, l. 175 (1598)
Topics: Love, Dream, Girlfriend, Love At First Sight
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
source: - Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 2 (1604)
Topics: Self, Limits, Hell, Mephistopheles, Faustus
Topics: Sin, Deceiving, Everlasting, Faustus
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Topics: Towers, Ships, Faces, Faustus, Helen Of Troy
Topics: Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms, Mephistopheles, Faustus
source: - Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 3 (1604)
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
source: - Christopher Marlowe (1818). “The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus”, p.60
