"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."

Christopher Marlowe Literature See all quotes by Christopher Marlowe →

React to this quote

More by Christopher Marlowe

“Accurst be he that first invented war.”

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”

“’s-tragic-history-life-and-death-doctoк “Hell” and “Soul” as cultural codes in Christopher Marlowe’s “Tragic history of the Life and death of Doctor Faustus”

“The Rose Theatre where Marlowe made his name”

“A Deception in Deptford - circumstantial evidence for the Marlowe-as-Shakespeare theory”

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

Resonant Thoughts

"We have to talk about democratic socialism as an alternative to unfettered capitalism, where the rich get richer and almost everybody else is getting poorer. I think that’s a message that young people…"

— Bernie Sanders

Politics1941

#money

"Richard R. Wright , b. 1878 at Documenting the American South"

— Richard R. Wright Jr.

Politics1878–1967

#money

"I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violen…"

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature1817–1862

#knowledge

"Today there is a new class hostile to business in general, and especially to large corporations. As a group, you find them mainly in the very large and growing public sector and in the media. They sha…"

— Irving Kristol

Journalism1920–2009

#politics