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
stars giving soul
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
country wenches
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
comfort companionship miserable
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
love funny money
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
ignorance sin
There is no sin but ignorance.
love life yield
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
love romantic dream
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
earth fit burial
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
fall dies
All live to die, and rise to fall.
life proud now-and-then
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
love steadfast our-lives
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
death draw foggy hath influence labouring stars whose
You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.
bare cease hour midnight stand thou time
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.
draw miles pampered twenty
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?