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TAMBURLAINE. [to BAJAZETH] Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit.
THERIDAMAS. So it would my lord, specially having so smal a walke, and so litle exercise. -- Christopher Marlowe
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
MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance. -- 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
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. -- Christopher Marlowe
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer. -- Christopher Marlowe
A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy10 farewell, and11 Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health. -- Christopher Marlowe
Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile.
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me. -- 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
Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale;
And when we whisper, then the stars fall down
To be partakers of our honey talk.
(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) -- Christopher Marlowe
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1 -- Christopher Marlowe
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? -- Christopher Marlowe
All live to die, and rise to fall. -- 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
The God Thou servest is thine own appetite, wherein is fixed the love of Beelzebub. To Him I'll build an altar and a church, and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes. -- Christopher Marlowe
Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day -- Christopher Marlowe
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. -- 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
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. -- Christopher Marlowe
BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all;
Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. -- Christopher Marlowe
Hell and confusion light upon their heads. -- Christopher Marlowe
Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled. -- Christopher Marlowe
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. -- Christopher Marlowe
TAMBURLAINE: Live still, my love, and so conserve my life,
Or, dying, be the author of my death. -- Christopher Marlowe
The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second Part, Where Death cuts off the progress of his pomp, And murderous Fates throw all his triumphs 2 down. But what became of fair -- Christopher Marlowe
All places shall be hell that are not heaven. -- Christopher Marlowe
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. -- Christopher Marlowe
Confess and be hanged. -- Christopher Marlowe
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. -- Christopher Marlowe
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. -- 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
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
FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. -- 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
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike -- Christopher Marlowe
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? -- Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: Where are you damn'd?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell.
FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: -- Christopher Marlowe
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
This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof we got the name of Mortimer,
Will I advance upon these castle-walls.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,
And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston! -- Christopher Marlowe
He that pleasure loves must for pleasure fall -- Christopher Marlowe
All women are ambitious naturallie -- Christopher Marlowe
What feeds me destroys me. -- Christopher Marlowe
BARABAS: Things past recovery
Are hardly cur'd with exclamations.
Be silent, daughter; sufferance breeds ease,
And time may yield us an occasion,
Which on the sudden cannot serve the turn. -- Christopher Marlowe
Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.) -- Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. -- 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
BARABAS: For religion
Hides many mischiefs from suspicion. -- Christopher Marlowe
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. -- 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
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death? -- Christopher Marlowe
Thou from this land, I from myself am banish'd. -- 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
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. -- Christopher Marlowe
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. -- Christopher Marlowe
Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)
But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray. -- Christopher Marlowe
Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- 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
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
Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall. -- Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. -- Christopher Marlowe
Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend. -- Christopher Marlowe
Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world. -- 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
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
Hell is just a frame of mind. -- Christopher Marlowe
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves. -- Christopher Marlowe
KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery
Have not in life or death made miserable? -- Christopher Marlowe
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. -- Christopher Marlowe
If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,
Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late. -- Christopher Marlowe
What virtue is it that is born with us?
Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,
Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.
Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,
Until some honorable deed be done.
----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I -- Christopher Marlowe
There is no sin but ignorance. -- Christopher Marlowe
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. -- Christopher Marlowe
That like I best that flies beyond my reach.
Set me to scale the high pyramids
And thereon set the diadem of France;
I'll either rend it with my nails to nought,
Or mount the top with my aspiring wings,
Although my downfall be the deepest hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. -- Christopher Marlowe
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
Shortening my days and thread of vital life. -- Christopher Marlowe
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil. -- Christopher Marlowe
Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? -- Christopher Marlowe
Live and die in Aristotle's works. -- 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
That holy shape becomes a devil best. -- Christopher Marlowe
What nourishes me, destroys me -- Christopher Marlowe
Make me immortal with a kiss. -- Christopher Marlowe
The sight of London to my exiled eyes
Is as Elysium to a new-come soul. -- Christopher Marlowe
O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! -- Christopher Marlowe
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles! -- Christopher Marlowe
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -- Christopher Marlowe
Goodness is beauty in its best mistake -- 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
Accursed be he that first invented war. -- Christopher Marlowe
Above our life we love a steadfast friend. -- Christopher Marlowe
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. -- Christopher Marlowe
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings. -- Christopher Marlowe
More childish valorous than manly wise. -- Christopher Marlowe
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. -- Christopher Marlowe
USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god. -- Christopher Marlowe
Blood is the god of war's rich livery. -- Christopher Marlowe
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. -- Christopher Marlowe
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. -- Christopher Marlowe
Love me little, love me long. -- Christopher Marlowe
And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet. -- 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
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. -- Christopher Marlowe
Strike up the drum and march courageously. -- Christopher Marlowe
I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. -- Christopher Marlowe
Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II -- Christopher Marlowe
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do. -- 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
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. -- 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
Accurst be he that first invented war. -- Christopher Marlowe