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Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
— Christopher Marlowe
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
— Christopher Marlowe
Thou from this land, I from myself am banish'd.
— Christopher Marlowe
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
— Christopher Marlowe
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That ismore knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
The sight of London to my exiled eyesIs as Elysium to a new-come soul. — Christopher Marlowe
BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day. — Christopher Marlowe
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
— Christopher Marlowe
I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my powerTo favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally. — Christopher Marlowe
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,And now and then stab, when occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.
— Christopher Marlowe
Bene disserer est finis logices.(The end of logic is to dispute well.) — Christopher Marlowe
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
— Christopher Marlowe
What feeds me destroys me.
— Christopher Marlowe
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
— Christopher Marlowe
Hell is just a frame of mind.
— 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
Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray. — Christopher Marlowe
Love me little, love me long.
— Christopher Marlowe
USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god.
— Christopher Marlowe
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
— Christopher Marlowe
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
— Christopher Marlowe
He that pleasure loves must for pleasure fall
— Christopher Marlowe
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
— Christopher Marlowe
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
— Christopher Marlowe
Love always makes those eloquent that have it.---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II — Christopher Marlowe
If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late. — Christopher Marlowe
Strike up the drum and march courageously.
— Christopher Marlowe
All live to die, and rise to fall.
— Christopher Marlowe
Accursed be he that first invented war.
— Christopher Marlowe
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
— Christopher Marlowe
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
— Christopher Marlowe
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
— Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
— Christopher Marlowe
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
— Christopher Marlowe
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1 — Christopher Marlowe
YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd,And, when I frown, make all the court look pale. — Christopher Marlowe
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,Shortening my days and thread of vital life. — Christopher Marlowe
More childish valorous than manly wise.
— Christopher Marlowe
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
— Christopher Marlowe
That holy shape becomes a devil best.
— Christopher Marlowe
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
— Christopher Marlowe
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. — Christopher Marlowe
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
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
— Christopher Marlowe
Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.
— Christopher Marlowe
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
— Christopher Marlowe
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
— Christopher Marlowe
BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all;Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
— 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
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
— Christopher Marlowe
As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2).
— Christopher Marlowe
All women are ambitious naturallie
— Christopher Marlowe
Hell and confusion light upon their heads.
— Christopher Marlowe
BARABAS: For religionHides many mischiefs from suspicion. — Christopher Marlowe
Live and die in Aristotle's works.
— Christopher Marlowe
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
— Christopher Marlowe
Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled.
— Christopher Marlowe
Why should you love him whom the world hates so?Because he love me more than all the world. — Christopher Marlowe
O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!
— Christopher Marlowe
What nourishes me, destroys me
— Christopher Marlowe
BARABAS: Why, I esteem the injury far less,To take the lives of miserable men
Than be the causers of their misery. — Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
— Christopher Marlowe
Accurst be he that first invented war.
— Christopher Marlowe
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
— Christopher Marlowe
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.What shall I do to shun the snares of death? — Christopher Marlowe
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
— Christopher Marlowe
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
— Christopher Marlowe
Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently. — Christopher Marlowe
KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and emperyHave not in life or death made miserable? — Christopher Marlowe
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
— Christopher Marlowe
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
— Christopher Marlowe
Confess and be hanged.
— Christopher Marlowe
Make me immortal with a kiss.
— Christopher Marlowe
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
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
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
— Christopher Marlowe
God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.
— Deborah Harkness
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.
— Christopher Marlowe
MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
TAMBURLAINE: Live still, my love, and so conserve my life,Or, dying, be the author of my death. — Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell,Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. — Christopher Marlowe
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
— Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is beauty in its best mistake
— Christopher Marlowe
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
— Christopher Marlowe
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
— Christopher Marlowe
Blood is the god of war's rich livery.
— Christopher Marlowe
Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III — Christopher Marlowe
And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.
— Christopher Marlowe
I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
— Christopher Marlowe
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
— Christopher Marlowe
There is no sin but ignorance.
— Christopher Marlowe