Christopher Marlowe Quotes

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

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.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

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

Make me immortal with a kiss.

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

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

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

What feeds me destroys me.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

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.

More childish valorous than manly wise.

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

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

Love me little, love me long.

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

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

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!

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

All women are ambitious naturallie

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

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

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

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

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