Quotes from Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

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

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

I'll burn my books!

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place; for where we are is hell,And where hell is there must we ever be.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,Conspired against our God with Lucifer,And are forever damned with Lucifer.

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops,And fall into the ocean—ne'er to be found.My God! my God! look not so fierce on me!

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?

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,And then thou must be damned perpetually!Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,That time may cease, and midnight never come.

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.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

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

Make me immortal with a kiss.

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

Hell is just a frame of mind.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

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.)