137 Quotes by 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!

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

TAMBURLAINE. [to BAJAZETH] Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit. THERIDAMAS. So it would my lord, specially having so smal a walke, and so litle exercise.

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

Make me immortal with a kiss.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

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

Menaphon:Your Majestie shall shortly have your wish,And ride in triumph through Persepolis.Tamburlaine:And ride in triumph through Persepolis?Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles?Usumcasane and Theridamas,Is it not passing brave to be a King,And ride in triumph through Persepolis?