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Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. — Christopher Marlowe

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. — Christopher Marlowe

Thou from this land, I from myself am banish'd. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe

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

BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,
And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day. — Christopher Marlowe

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

I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power
To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally. — Christopher Marlowe

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe

It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. — Christopher Marlowe

Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.) — Christopher Marlowe

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike — Christopher Marlowe

What feeds me destroys me. — Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. — Christopher Marlowe

Hell is just a frame of mind. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)
But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray. — Christopher Marlowe

Love me little, love me long. — Christopher Marlowe

USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god. — Christopher Marlowe

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings. — Christopher Marlowe

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. — Christopher Marlowe

He that pleasure loves must for pleasure fall — 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

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? — Christopher Marlowe

Love always makes those eloquent that have it.

---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II — Christopher Marlowe

If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,
Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late. — Christopher Marlowe

Strike up the drum and march courageously. — Christopher Marlowe

All live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe

Accursed be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Christopher Marlowe

Things that are not at all, are never lost. — Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. — Christopher Marlowe

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. — Christopher Marlowe

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1 — Christopher Marlowe

YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd,
And, when I frown, make all the court look pale. — Christopher Marlowe

Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
Shortening my days and thread of vital life. — Christopher Marlowe

More childish valorous than manly wise. — Christopher Marlowe

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. — Christopher Marlowe

That holy shape becomes a devil best. — Christopher Marlowe

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou
Or any man that breathes on earth. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles! — Christopher Marlowe

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

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. — Christopher Marlowe

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer. — Christopher Marlowe

BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all;
Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. — Christopher Marlowe

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be. — Christopher Marlowe

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. — Christopher Marlowe

As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2). — Christopher Marlowe

All women are ambitious naturallie — Christopher Marlowe

Hell and confusion light upon their heads. — Christopher Marlowe

BARABAS: For religion
Hides many mischiefs from suspicion. — Christopher Marlowe

Live and die in Aristotle's works. — Christopher Marlowe

Our swords shall play the orators for us. — Christopher Marlowe

Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled. — Christopher Marlowe

Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world. — Christopher Marlowe

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! — Christopher Marlowe

What nourishes me, destroys me — Christopher Marlowe

BARABAS: Why, I esteem the injury far less,
To take the lives of miserable men
Than be the causers of their misery. — Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in the best estate. — Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Comparisons are odious

Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect... — Talon Rihai

Above our life we love a steadfast friend. — Christopher Marlowe

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe

Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. — Anthony Burgess

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently. — Christopher Marlowe

KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery
Have not in life or death made miserable? — Christopher Marlowe

Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. — Christopher Marlowe

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do. — Christopher Marlowe

Confess and be hanged. — Christopher Marlowe

Make me immortal with a kiss. — 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

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground. — Christopher Marlowe

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell. — Christopher Marlowe

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe. — Deborah Harkness

Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. — Christopher Marlowe

MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe

TAMBURLAINE: Live still, my love, and so conserve my life,
Or, dying, be the author of my death. — Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. — Christopher Marlowe

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. — Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in its best mistake — Christopher Marlowe

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil. — Christopher Marlowe

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. — Christopher Marlowe

Blood is the god of war's rich livery. — Christopher Marlowe

Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.

---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III — Christopher Marlowe

And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet. — Christopher Marlowe

I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. — Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. — Noel Coward

All places shall be hell that are not heaven. — Christopher Marlowe

There is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe