Christopher Marlowe: Quotes about love

Christopher Marlowe was English dramatist, poet and translator. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Christopher Marlowe: 110 quotes12 likes

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

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.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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

“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?

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

Christopher Marlowe

Source: The Complete Plays and Poems

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

Christopher Marlowe

“p>Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.”

Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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.”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)

“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

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.”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)

“All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.”

Christopher Marlowe

Remark attributed to Marlowe from the testimony of Richard Baines, a government informer, in 1593.
Disputed