Christopher Marlowe
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Biography
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.
"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
"Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?"
"Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove"
"You sons of care, companions of my course!"
"Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend."
"What strange arts necessity finds out."
"Our swords shall play the orators for us."
"Accurst be he that first invented war."
"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
"Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool."
"Love me little, love me long."
"My swelling heart for very anger breaks."
"He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall."
"All women are ambitious naturally."
"Love always makes those eloquent that have it."
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
"All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools."
"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
"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."
"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance."
"Accursed be he that first invented war."
"I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned."
"But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1"
"Virtue is the fount whence honor springs."