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Christopher Marlowe Quotes

Christopher Marlowe quotes

English Playwright February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593

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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
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leaped out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half an hour old, and ever since I have run up and down the world, with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. I was born in hell - and look to it, for some of you shall be my father. 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
Wagner Doctor Faustus' student and servant: "Alas, poor slave! See how poverty jests in his nakedness. I know the villain's out of service, and so hungry that I know he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw."Robin a clown: "Not so, neither! I had need to have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear, I can tell you. Christopher Marlowe
From jygging vaines of riming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keepes in pay, Weele leade you to the stately tent of War: Where you shall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatning the world with high astounding tearms. And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. View but his picture in this tragicke glasse, And then applaud his fortunes if you please. 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
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
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
Christopher Marlowe quote: "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place,..."
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
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
Christopher Marlowe quote: "I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned."
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe quote: "Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits."
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. 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
Christopher Marlowe quote: "What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?"
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe quote: "What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in..."
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe

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