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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.
William Shakespeare
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
Christopher Marlowe
O, full of scorpions is my mind!
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leaped out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half an hour old, and ever since I have run up and down the world, with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal. I was born in hell - and look to it, for some of you shall be my father.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
And nothing is, but what is not.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And not kings only, but the wisest men: The Roman Tully loved Octavius, Grave Socrates, wild Alcibiades.
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice