Christopher Marlowe

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

— Christopher Marlowe

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.

— Christopher Marlowe

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

— Christopher Marlowe

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

— Christopher Marlowe

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

— Christopher Marlowe

It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overrul'd by fate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

— Christopher Marlowe

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 yield.

— Christopher Marlowe