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
earth fit burial
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
honor deeds honour
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
ignorance sin
There is no sin but ignorance.
fifty greatest-love influence
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
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.
kings sunshine perfect
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
self limits hell
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
lost
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
heaven hell faustus
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
dance men feet
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
beauty ethics goodness
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
knaves fool knavery
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
women ambition ambitious
All women are ambitious naturallie