Christopher Marlowe Quotes

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Life, Proud, Now And Then

  "The Plays".

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• Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Honor, Deeds, Honour

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics

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• All live to die, and rise to fall.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Fall, Dies

  Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2015). “Edward II: With Related Texts”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Money, Bargaining

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Hate, Lying, Fate

  'Hero and Leander' (published 1598) First Sestiad, l. 167.

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Greatest Love, Fifty, Influence

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• There is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ignorance, Sin

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• Things that are not at all, are never lost.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Lost

  Christopher Marlowe (2012). “Complete Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Steadfast, Our Lives

  Christopher Marlowe, George Robinson (editor.) (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson].”, p.343

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheist, Ignorance, Thinking

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• 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

  "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

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• 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, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Dream

  Hero and Leander First Sestiad, l. 175 (1598)

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Running, Stars, Moving

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 2 (1604)

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Long, Devil, Spoons

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• Make me immortal with a kiss.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Positive, Kissing

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).

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• Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheism, Suspicion, Mischief

  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

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Laughing, Earth, Fool

  Christopher Marlowe (1981). “Doctor Faustus”, Signet Classics

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Running, Time, Feet

  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

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Envy, Wish

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Earth, Fit, Burial

  Christopher Marlowe (2000). “The Plays”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions

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• Infinite riches in a little room.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Littles, Riches, Rooms

  'The Jew of Malta' (c.1592) act 1, sc. 1

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Hate, World, Should

  Christopher Marlowe, E. E. Reynolds (2014). “Edward the Second”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Beauty, Ethics, Goodness

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