Christopher Marlowe

I am a soldier, and I will fight.

The world is mine, and I will conquer it.

I will be king, and rule the world.

What is the world to them that have no hope?

I am not born to die, but to live.

I am a man, and I have a soul.

The world is a stage, and we are all players.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / Shaped in a bramble: O, what a world of scum / This is!

Hell is just a frame of mind.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.

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

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

What is beauty, truthfully? / A mere grimace of a facial muscle.

It lies not in our power to love or hate.

For he being dead, with selfe same knife / Did slay the beast, and take his life.