Christopher Marlowe: Quotes about love
Christopher Marlowe was English dramatist, poet and translator. Explore interesting quotes on love.“Love me little, love me long.”
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)
“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”
Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Source: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
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?
“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”
Source: The Complete Plays and Poems
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (unknown date), stanzas 1 and 2. Compare: "To shallow rivers, to whose falls / Melodious birds sings madrigals; / There will we make our peds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies", William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. scene i. (Sung by Evans.)
“A pleasant-smiling cheek, a speaking eye,
A brow for love to banquet royally.”
First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.”
Second Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.”
First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.”
Remark attributed to Marlowe from the testimony of Richard Baines, a government informer, in 1593.
Disputed
“Love always makes those eloquent that have it.”
Second Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)