Christopher Marlowe Quotes

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• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever…
• Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
• He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
• Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
• Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.
• You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
• Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
• 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…
• Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
• FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great…
• What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
• 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…
• Make me immortal with a kiss.
• I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
• 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…
• The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
• All live to die, and rise to fall.
• Love me little, love me long.
• Accurst be he that first invented war.
• Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! I'll burn my books!

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