# Christopher Marlowe

- Quotes: 26
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe

## Books

- [Doctor Faustus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus.md) — 26 quotes

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> No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
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> That hath deprived thee of the joys of Heaven.
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> Oh, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
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> Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
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> O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops
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> And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found.
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> My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.
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> Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile.
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> Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer!
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> I'll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles!"

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> Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
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> And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough,
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> That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
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> Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
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> Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
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> Only to wonder at unlawful things,
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> Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
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> To practise more than heavenly power permits.

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> And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
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> The jaws of hell are open to receive thee.

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> Have I not made blind Homer sing to me?

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> Live and die in Aristotle's works.

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> All: God forbid!
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> Faustus: God forbade it indeed, but Faustus hath done it.

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> My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent.

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> What doctrine call you this, Che serà, serà:
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> What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu!

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

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> He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.

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> Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
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> Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer,
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> And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer.

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> Che serà, serà:
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> What will be, shall be.

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