Christopher Marlowe > Quotes

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

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

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?

Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.

Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?

Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“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, Dr. Faustus

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

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

“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, Dr. Faustus

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
― Christopher Marlowe

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

“All live to die, and rise to fall.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
― Christoper Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”
― Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays and Poems

“What nourishes me, destroys me”
― Christopher Marlowe

“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.
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.
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“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.--
''[kisses her]''
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!--
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.
I will be Paris, and for love of thee,
Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd;
And I will combat with weak Menelaus,
And wear thy colours on my plumed crest;
Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,
And then return to Helen for a kiss.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter
When he appear'd to hapless Semele;
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms;
And none but thou shalt be my paramour!”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“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.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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

“I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

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

- Edward II, 5.1”
― Christopher Marlowe

“All beasts are happy,
For, when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell.
Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?”
― Christopher Marlowe

“Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit.”
― 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.
”
― Christoper Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

“It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander

“It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus