Christopher Marlowe Quotes

1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet
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“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
VerifiedFirst Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman. · evidenceLove
“All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.”
Burial
“Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.”
VerifiedThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love (unknown date), stanzas 1 and 2 · evidenceLiving Together
“Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?”
Glory
“I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
VerifiedThe Jew of Malta (c. 1589) · evidenceReligion
“What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”
Kings
“That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”
Leaders and Leadership
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
Beauty
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”
Astrology
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”
Faces
“Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?”
Love At First Sight
“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
Ambition
“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be.”
VerifiedDoctor Faustus (c. 1603), Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118 · evidenceHell