Top 100 Marlowe's Quotes
#1. (Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#2. Yo!"
"We good?"
"We're good."
"Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however."
"Apologies, boss. Exuberance.
Glen Duncan
#3. No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician's sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what's best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe's
Nathan Allen
#4. Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan - it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
Graham Greene
#5. TAMBURLAINE: Live still, my love, and so conserve my life,
Or, dying, be the author of my death.
Christopher Marlowe
#6. I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can
Marlowe Sr.
#8. She blinked away memories to find him staring at her with a mix of concern and horror on his face.
Chloe shivered. 'Why do you look at me like that?'
'Because you scare the hell out of me.'
She rather liked the sound of that.
Deb Marlowe
#9. Another longish pause. His eyelids were getting heavy. "Ever kill a man, Marlowe?" "Yes." "Nasty feeling, isn't it?" "Some people like it." His eyes went shut all the way. Then they opened again, but they looked vague. "How could they?
Raymond Chandler
#10. I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.
Raymond Chandler
#11. YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd,
And, when I frown, make all the court look pale.
Christopher Marlowe
#13. Totally drained he could only manage one but he made it a good one tongue included. "Delicious " he murmured.
"So depraved " Colton muttered.
"Thank you."
"Get off me."
"Mine "
"Stings."
"Boohoo.
Finn Marlowe
#14. Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Christopher Marlowe
#15. What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe
#16. Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou
Or any man that breathes on earth.
Christopher Marlowe
#23. I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power
To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.
Christopher Marlowe
#24. Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,
Which into words no virtue can digest.
Christopher Marlowe
#25. I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.
Nikita Gill
#26. KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery
Have not in life or death made miserable?
Christopher Marlowe
#27. Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
Raymond Chandler
#28. Do ye suppose that's why God gave Eve to Adam ---to let him know what he needed before he even knew he needed it?
Mia Marlowe
#30. 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 Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
Christopher Marlowe
#31. Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day
Christopher Marlowe
#32. I'll show ye to your chamber."
"So long as it's also your chamber," William said, shifting his oilskin pack on his shoulder. "Or has it slipped your mind that ye're my wife?
Mia Marlowe
#33. So. Tell me," Marlowe tried gamely, "what do you think is man's greatest invention?"
Jericho turned his head just slightly toward Marlowe, looking him straight in the eye. "God.
Libba Bray
#35. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Ann Marlowe
#36. Who is this Marlowe guy anyway? He's an ass. Threw him out. Threatened to have Ysmi sit on him if he returned.
Why are there two severed heads rolling around the house? Cats tried to eat one. Mostly prevented.
Headless guy is in hallway broom closet with head that I think is his.
Karen Chance
#37. Heroin is a stand-in, a stop-gap, a mask, for what we believe is missing. Like the "objects" seen by Plato's man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can't see directly.
Ann Marlowe
#38. It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
Christopher Marlowe
#39. 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 consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
Christopher Marlowe
#40. No visible scars. Hair dark brown, some gray. Eyes brown. Height six feet, one half inch. Weight about one ninety. Name Philip Marlowe. Occupation private detective.
Raymond Chandler
#41. Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Christopher Marlowe
#43. Inhaling deeply, Evan pressed his face to the soft tangle of Jamie's hair.
You had me at that first 'fuck you'.
Finn Marlowe
#44. 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
Christopher Marlowe
#45. Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
Anthony Burgess
#47. A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid Economy10 farewell, and11 Galen come, Seeing, Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz'd for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body's health.
Christopher Marlowe
#48. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
#49. A motorcycle is only an ordinary bicycle driven crazy by over-indulgence in gasoline." "How
Amy Bell Marlowe
#50. Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
Christopher Marlowe
#52. A third ... candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.
Bill Bryson
#53. I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
Mark Billingham
#54. It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without.
Dan J. Marlowe
#56. Or maybe aliens had abducted him - yeah, that was what happened. Knowing Evan, he'd spot the anal probe and want to try it out on them.
Finn Marlowe
#57. BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,
And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day.
Christopher Marlowe
#58. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.
Christopher Marlowe
#60. Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
Christopher Marlowe
#62. Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.
Julia Marlowe
#63. I'll be glad for your company," Will said as he draped her cloak over her shoulders and handed her the new muff. "But bundle up. Sounds colder than a banshee's tits out."
"And since when do ye know about any other tits but mine?" she asked tartly.
Mia Marlowe
#64. Ye're my wife, Katherine. Ye promised before God to obey me. If I want to sleep with ye, I damned well will.
Mia Marlowe
#67. Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.)
Christopher Marlowe
#68. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
#69. Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
E.A. Bucchianeri
#70. MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
#72. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#73. I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler
#74. This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof 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!
Christopher Marlowe
#75. Oh, Isabella, what's wrong with me? I believe I'm actually jealous of . . . of myself!" "Then
Mia Marlowe
#77. On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.
Dan J. Marlowe
#78. O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
#80. You're mine to take, pretty one. I'll fuck you when I want and how I want!" Another surge of the heat wave, muscles clenching and squeezing. "Let me in," he commanded. "Don't fight me. I will have you dammit! You're mine!"
"Give me all of you," Killian demanded of Colton. "You're mine! It's mine.
Finn Marlowe
#82. Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.
Christopher Marlowe
#83. FAUSTUS: Where are you damn'd?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell.
FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Christopher Marlowe
#84. Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)
But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Christopher Marlowe
#85. But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop
Benjamin Black
#86. Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.
Karen Chance
#87. Unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
Julia Marlowe
#89. Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III
Christopher Marlowe
#90. Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile.
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
Christopher Marlowe
#93. If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,
Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.
Christopher Marlowe
#95. A gentleman would have announced himself!" I told him, pressing against the side of the tub.
"And a scoundrel would have joined you."
Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)
Karen Chance
#96. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
Raymond Chandler
#97. You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
Christopher Marlowe
#98. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
Christopher Marlowe
#99. Commissioner Marlowe stood on the platform with his arms crossed as we disembarked. He had the cheerful demeanor of someone who has been beaten about the face all night with a sock full of porridge--only even more so than usual.
William Ritter
#100. For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you're a sorry state of affairs.
Elizabeth Bear
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