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
sweet perfect fruition
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
justice steel quarrels
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
peace war firsts
Accurst be he that first invented war.
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.
causes excess wealth
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
stars astrology influence
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
laughing fool earth
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
kings bravery triumph
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
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.
simple thinking atheism
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
long devil spoons
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
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.
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.
women house empty
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.