76+ Christopher Marlowe Quotes On Fiery, Subversive And Revolutionary

Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the 16th century. He is best known for his plays, including 'The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus', 'Tamburlaine the Great' and 'Edward II'. He is considered to be one of the most influential playwrights of the Elizabethan era and has been credited with introducing a new style of writing to the English stage. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Christopher Marlowe on love, life, fiery.

Top 10 Christopher Marlowe Quotes

1. You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.
2. Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
3. There is no sin but ignorance.
4. Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
5. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
6. O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
7. All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
8. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
9. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
10. It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Christopher Marlowe Image Quotes

There is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

Christopher Marlowe Short Quotes

• What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
• My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
• I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
• Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
• Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
• Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
• Strike up the drum and march courageously.
• Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
• Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

Christopher Marlowe Quotes About Love

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

Love me little, love me long. — Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night! — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Make me immortal with a kiss. — Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe Quotes About Hell

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

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

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

Hell is just a frame of mind. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be. — Christopher Marlowe

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. — Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe Famous Quotes And Sayings

There is no sin but ignorance. — 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

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

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

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

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

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. — Christopher Marlowe

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate. — Christopher Marlowe

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

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. — Christopher Marlowe

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst 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! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. — Christopher Marlowe

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

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion. — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

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

All women are ambitious naturallie — 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

More childish valorous than manly wise. — Christopher Marlowe

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. — 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

Confess and be hanged. — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, does teach us all to have aspiring minds. — 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

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

Unhappy Persia, that in former age Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors, That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa. — Christopher Marlowe

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

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

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

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? — Christopher Marlowe

Infinite riches in a little room. — Christopher Marlowe

Life Lessons by Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe's works demonstrate the importance of standing up for what you believe in, no matter the cost.
2. His plays also emphasize the power of knowledge and the need to question authority.
3. Finally, Marlowe's works show that no matter the obstacles we face, we can achieve great things with courage and determination.