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
life long littles
Love me little, love me long.
wise manly
More childish valorous than manly wise.
joy heaven world
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
lost
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
wings self heaven
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
hate world should
Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.
country art stars
FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.
What feeds me destroys me.
kings sunshine perfect
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
love romantic beauty
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
women house empty
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
honor deeds honour
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
fifty greatest-love influence
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
love positive kissing
Make me immortal with a kiss.