Top 70 Christopher Marlowe Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.”

— Christopher Marlowe

2. “Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”

— Christopher Marlowe

3. “Hell is just a frame of mind.”

— Christopher Marlowe

4. “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”

— Christopher Marlowe

5. “You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.”

— Christopher Marlowe

6. “Love me little, love me long.”

— Christopher Marlowe

7. “What feeds me destroys me.”

— Christopher Marlowe

8. “I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.”

— Christopher Marlowe

9. “There is no sin but ignorance.”

— Christopher Marlowe

10. “All live to die, and rise to fall.”

— Christopher Marlowe

11. “Make me immortal with a kiss.”

— Christopher Marlowe

12. “Strike up the drum and march courageously.”

— Christopher Marlowe

13. “The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike.”

— Christopher Marlowe

14. “We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.”

— Christopher Marlowe

15. “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.”

— Christopher Marlowe

16. “Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

— Christopher Marlowe

17. “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 be.”

— Christopher Marlowe

18. “Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”

— Christopher Marlowe

19. “Honour is purchas’d by the deeds we do.”

— Christopher Marlowe

20. “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

21. “Things that are not at all, are never lost.”

— Christopher Marlowe

22. “Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.”

— Christopher Marlowe

23. “What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”

— Christopher Marlowe

24. “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

— Christopher Marlowe

25. “Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.”

— Christopher Marlowe

26. “All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”

— Christopher Marlowe

27. “All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.”

— Christopher Marlowe

28. “What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

30. “Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles!”

— Christopher Marlowe

31. “Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.”

— Christopher Marlowe

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32. “Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”

— Christopher Marlowe

33. “O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

— Christopher Marlowe

34. “The God Thou servest is thine own appetite, wherein is fixed the love of Beelzebub. To Him I’ll build an altar and a church, and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes.”

— Christopher Marlowe

35. “Infinite riches in a little room.”

— Christopher Marlowe

36. “More childish valorous than manly wise.”

— Christopher Marlowe

37. “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”

— Christopher Marlowe

38. “Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”

— Christopher Marlowe

39. “That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”

— Christopher Marlowe

40. “Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.”

— Christopher Marlowe

41. “Blood is the god of war’s rich livery.”

— Christopher Marlowe

42. “He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.”

— Christopher Marlowe

43. “Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.”

— Christopher Marlowe

44. “Live and die in Aristotle’s works.”

— Christopher Marlowe

45. “All women are ambitious naturallie.”

— Christopher Marlowe

46. “Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?”

— Christopher Marlowe

47. “It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.”

— Christopher Marlowe

48. “Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir’d his overthrow.”

— Christopher Marlowe

49. “Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?”

— Christopher Marlowe

50. “Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.”

— Christopher Marlowe