137 Quotes by Christopher Marlowe

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

What virtue is it that is born with us?Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,Until some honorable deed be done.----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

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.

Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III

Heavens can witness I love none but you:From my embracements thus he breaks away.O that mine arms could close this isle about,That I might pull him to me where I would!Or that these tears that drizzle from mine eyesHad power to mollify his stony heart,That when I had him we might never part.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,You could not bear his death thus patiently.