Christopher Marlowe citations

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

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

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

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

“All live to die, and rise to fall.”

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

“Love me little, love me long.”

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

“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.”

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”

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

“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?”

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”

“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.”

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

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

“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!”

“What nourishes me, destroys me”

“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”

“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”

“I am Envy… I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

“If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.”

“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves.”

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.”

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

“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- Edward II, 5.1”

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

“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.”