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“Love me little, love me long.”

Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta

Ithamore, Act IV. Quoting John Heywood, "Love me litle, love me long," in Proverbes (c. 1538), Part ii, Chapter ii.
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)

“Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove”

Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta

Barabas, Act II, scene iii. Marlowe is referencing Jesus, "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves," in Matthew 10:16.
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
Context: Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

“All live to die, and rise to fall.”

Christopher Marlowe Edoardo II

Edward II

“Like untuned golden strings all women are,
Which long time lie untouch'd, will harshly jar.
Vessels of brass, oft handled, brightly shine.”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)

“Thou hast committed—
Fornication: but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.”

Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta

Friar Barnardine and Barabas, Act IV, scene i
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”

Christopher Marlowe

Aeneas, Act I, scene i, line 149
Dido (c. 1586)

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

Christopher Marlowe

Source: Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

Christopher Marlowe

Source: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2

“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 The Jew of Malta

Barabas, Act I, scene i. Paraphrasing John Heywood, &quot;Here lyeth muche rychnesse in lytell space,&quot; in The Foure PP https://books.google.com/books?id=LbkVAAAAYAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false (c. 1530). <br class="br">The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)

“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Source: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)

“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st 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?”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Source: Dr. Faustus

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: Dr. Faustus

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

Christopher Marlowe

Source: The Complete Plays and Poems

“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!”

Christopher Marlowe

Faustus, Act V, scene i, lines 91–93
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

“What nourishes me, destroys me”

Christopher Marlowe