Top 100 Quotes About Marlowe
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
Raymond Chandler
#7. 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
#8. 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
#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. 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
#11. 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
#12. Comparisons are odious
Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...
Talon Rihai
#14. And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#15. (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
#16. Detective work is neither a happy nor a satisfying business, Miss Rook," said Jackaby, settling in as the amber buildings sailed past our window. "Marlowe will understand." "I don't understand at all." Commissioner Marlowe kept his voice low and even as we sat across from him the following morning.
William Ritter
#17. Well, pumpkin, if you'd stop hiring boozehounds with a hard-on for Marlowe, someone might get the job done.
Daniel Younger
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.
Deborah Harkness
#21. The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Kim Novak
#22. Yo!"
"We good?"
"We're good."
"Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however."
"Apologies, boss. Exuberance.
Glen Duncan
#23. Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
Noel Coward
#24. Youth, youth- something savage- something pedantic. For example there is Mr. Masefield, there is Mr. Bennett. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and burn them to cinders. Let not a shred remain. Don't palter with the second rate. Detest your own age. Build a better one.
Virginia Woolf
#25. 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
#26. Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.
Ruta Sepetys
#28. Oh, Isabella, what's wrong with me? I believe I'm actually jealous of . . . of myself!" "Then
Mia Marlowe
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#33. MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
#34. 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
#35. Bene disserer est finis logices.
(The end of logic is to dispute well.)
Christopher Marlowe
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
Christopher Marlowe
#43. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.
Christopher Marlowe
#44. 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
#45. 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
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
Christopher Marlowe
#51. You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
Christopher Marlowe
#52. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
Raymond Chandler
#54. If I be cruel and grow tyrannous,
Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.
Christopher Marlowe
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. Unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
Julia Marlowe
#61. Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.
Karen Chance
#62. But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop
Benjamin Black
#63. Love is not ful of pittie (as men say)
But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Christopher Marlowe
#64. 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
#65. Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.
Christopher Marlowe
#67. 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
#69. O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
#70. Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III
Christopher Marlowe
#71. I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can
Marlowe Sr.
#72. KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery
Have not in life or death made miserable?
Christopher Marlowe
#73. 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
#74. 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
#81. 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
#82. What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe
#83. Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Christopher Marlowe
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. TAMBURLAINE: Live still, my love, and so conserve my life,
Or, dying, be the author of my death.
Christopher Marlowe
#90. Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Christopher Marlowe
#92. 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
#93. A motorcycle is only an ordinary bicycle driven crazy by over-indulgence in gasoline." "How
Amy Bell Marlowe
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
Anthony Burgess
#98. 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
#99. Inhaling deeply, Evan pressed his face to the soft tangle of Jamie's hair.
You had me at that first 'fuck you'.
Finn Marlowe
