CMChristopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe

Life dates: 1565 AD — 1593 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1579 AD

I 'm armed with more than complete steel,— The justice of my quarrel.

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02c. 1579 AD

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

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03c. 1579 AD

Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.

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04c. 1579 AD

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

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05c. 1579 AD

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

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06c. 1579 AD

Infinite riches in a little room.

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07c. 1579 AD

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

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08c. 1579 AD

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

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09c. 1579 AD

Love me little, love me long.

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10c. 1579 AD

When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

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11c. 1579 AD

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!

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12c. 1579 AD

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

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13c. 1579 AD

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

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14c. 1579 AD

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

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15c. 1579 AD

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

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16c. 1579 AD

Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?

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17c. 1579 AD

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

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18c. 1579 AD

This tottered ensign of my ancestorsWhich swept the desert shore of that dead seaWhereof 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!

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19c. 1579 AD

Accursed be he that first invented war.

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20c. 1579 AD

Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time’s golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III

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21c. 1579 AD

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 powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.

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22c. 1579 AD

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

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23c. 1579 AD

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)

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24c. 1579 AD

Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,Which into words no virtue can digest.

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