Christopher Marlowe Quotes - Page 2

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Violence, Violent, Heard

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Joy, Heaven, World

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• All women are ambitious naturallie

  Christopher Marlowe

  Women, Ambition, Ambitious

  Louis Ule, Christopher Marlowe (1979). “A Concordance to the Works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.365, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Excess, Causes, Wealth

  Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2009). “The Jew of Malta”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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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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• 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.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Limits, Hell

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.139

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• He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Fall, Pleasure, Faustus

  Christopher Marlowe, William Oxberry (1818). “Doctor Faustus: a tragedy”, p.62

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• Our swords shall play the orators for us.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Play, Orators

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

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• Love me little, love me long.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Life, Long, Littles

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.305, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Kings, Sunshine, Perfect

  c.1591 Edward II (published1594), act 5, sc.1.

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• Strike up the drum and march courageously.

  Christopher Marlowe

  War, March, Strikes

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Spring, Keys, Virtue

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 4, sc. 4

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Stars, Giving, Soul

  Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmussen (1998). “Doctor Faustus and Other Plays”, p.148, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ships, Faces, Towers

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

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• Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Women, House, Empty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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• Confess and be hanged.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.289, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Country, Wenches

  'The Jew of Malta' (c.1592) act 4, sc. 1

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ocean, Fall, Soul

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 5, sc. 2

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Comfort, Companionship, Miserable

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• Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Wine, Water, Prize

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

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• 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.

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  Country, Art, Stars

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe (2010). “Faust, Part I, Egmont and Hermann, Dorothea, Dr Faustus: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XIX (in 51 Volumes)”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Dance, Men, Feet

  Edward II act 1, sc. 1 (1593)

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• Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Sight, Firsts

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen. Hero and Leander. Certain of Ovid's elegies. Epigrams and elegies by John Davies and Christopher Marlowe. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies”, p.327

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• 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

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Self, Wings, Heaven

  Christopher Marlowe (2005). “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, p.49, Routledge

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