Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth26 February 1564
kings grief men
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
cutting night blood
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
christian poverty wealth
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
wine water prize
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
cutting men branches
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.
love men praying
Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Confess and be hanged.
long devil spoons
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
soul kingdoms comfort
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)
love money bargaining
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
kings bravery triumph
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
love sight firsts
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
causes excess wealth
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
laughing fool earth
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.