Christopher Marlowe Quotes

• More childish valorous than manly wise.

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• And to this day is every scholar poor; Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.

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• And as she wept, her tears to pearl he turned, And wound them on his arm, and for her mourned.

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• Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

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• His body was as straight as Circe’s wand; Jove might have sipped out nectar from his hand.

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• So lovely fair was Hero, Venus’ nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.

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• Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis.

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

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• You stars that reigned at my nativity, Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist, Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud, That when you vomit forth into the air, My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, So that my soul may but ascend to heaven.

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• Ah, Pythagoras’ metempsychosis, were that time, This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast.

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• O gentle Faustus, leave this damne’d art, This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell.

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• Have I not made blind Homer sing to me?

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• But think’st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou, or any man that breathes on earth.

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• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to be short, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.

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• 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!

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• How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I’ll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.

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• All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command: emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; A sound magician is a demi-god.

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• Oh, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, and omnipotence, Is promised to the studious artisan!

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• Is, to dispute well, logic’s chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle?

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• I’ll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.

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Christopher Marlowe (63)

Birth:	26th February, 1564
Death:	30th May, 1593
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Poet, Translator

About

Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury, Kent, England. He was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.

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