Christopher Marlowe Quotes in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

William Shakespeare: Good title.

Christopher Marlowe: Yours?

William Shakespeare: "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter". - Oh, yes, I know, I know.

Christopher Marlowe: What is the story?

William Shakespeare: Well, there's this pirate. - In truth I have not written a word.

Christopher Marlowe: I thought your play was for Burbage.

William Shakespeare: This is a different one.

Christopher Marlowe: A different one you haven't written?

Christopher Marlowe: His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother or something. His name is Mercutio.

William Shakespeare: Mercutio... good name.

Christopher Marlowe: I wish I'd known him when I wrote Hamlet.

Christopher Marlowe: Saying things in a short snappy way instead of a long drawn-out way is the soul of wit

Bill Shakespeare: You mean brevity?

Christopher Marlowe: Yeah

Christopher Marlowe: What are you doing in a pie?

Sir Francis Walsingham: It's a disguise. Or one might say a 'despise'. Now that works in three ways; One, it's a disguise. Two, the disguise is pie and, three, it's got the word 'spies' in it. So...

Christopher Marlowe: It's very clever