Christopher Marlowe Quotes

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

Christopher Marlowe
Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou has ravish'd me.

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

Christopher Marlowe
Barnardine: Thou hast committed—
Barabas: Fornication? But that was in another country: and besides, the wench is dead.

Christopher Marlowe
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia!
What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day…?

Christopher Marlowe
O lente lente currite noctis equi.
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

Christopher Marlowe
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.

Christopher Marlowe
What should a priest do with so fair a house?
A prison may best beseem his holiness.

Christopher Marlowe
I'll have them fly to India for gold,
Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.

Christopher Marlowe
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.

Christopher Marlowe
The sight of London to my exiled eyes,
Is as Elysium to a new-come soul.

Christopher Marlowe
Virtue solely is the sum of glory,
And fashions men with true nobility.

Christopher Marlowe
Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.

Christopher Marlowe
Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.

Christopher Marlowe
Now walk the angels on the walls of heaven,
As sentinels to warn th' immortal souls,
To entertain divine Zenocrate.

Christopher Marlowe
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)

Christopher Marlowe
Of Helen of Troy:
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies.
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in those lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.

Christopher Marlowe
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.

Christopher Marlowe
Let Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore,
For both their worths shall equal him no more.

Christopher Marlowe
And thus methinks should men of judgment frame
Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,
And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
Infinite riches in a little room.

Christopher Marlowe
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
Conspired against our God with Lucifer,
And are forever damned with Lucifer.

Christopher Marlowe
See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament.

Christopher Marlowe
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

Christopher Marlowe
Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed —
Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.

Christopher Marlowe
So, march away; and let due praise be given
Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.

Christopher Marlowe
My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.

Christopher Marlowe