Christopher Marlowe1564–1593The quotations of
Christopher Marlowe
English dramatist, poet and translator
1564–1593
16 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Theology.
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act V, scene i, lines 91–93In context
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)- Tamburlaine (c. 1588), Act I, scene ii, line 132
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.Hero and Leander (published 1598), First Sestiad- Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act II, scene i, line 118In context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by MephistophilisIn context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by ChorusIn context
