Christopher Marlowe Quotes

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

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 hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?

~ Christopher Marlowe

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

~ Christopher Marlowe

This tottered ensign of my ancestorsWhich swept the desert shore of that dead seaWhereof 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

Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time’s golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III

~ Christopher Marlowe

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 powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,Which into words no virtue can digest.

~ Christopher Marlowe

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

Make me immortal with a kiss.

~ Christopher Marlowe

Hell is just a frame of mind.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn 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

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.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee.

~ Christopher Marlowe

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1

~ Christopher Marlowe

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 armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

~ Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

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

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe

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

~ Christopher Marlowe