Best Marlowe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.”

Hell Atheism Disbelief Paganism Inferno Faust Faustus Marlowe Faustian Christopher Marlowe Faust Legend

Book:Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

Source: Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.”

Love Poetry Reading Literature Books Library Shakespeare Bookworm Marlowe Bookworm Problems

Book:Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

Source: Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”

Mind Plans Mankind Philosophical Planning Man Sad But True Artifice Faust Faustus Marlowe Faustian Imprison Christopher Marlowe When Things Fall Apart Grand Plans When Plans Go Wrong Imprisionment

Book:Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

Source: Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

“Who is this Marlowe guy anyway? He's an ass. Threw him out. Threatened to have Ysmi sit on him if he returned. Why are there two severed heads rolling around the house? Cats tried to eat one. Mostly prevented. Headless guy is in hallway broom closet with head that I think is his.”

Claire Marlowe Dory

Book:Death's Mistress

Source: Death's Mistress

“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

Marlowe Raymond Chandler Hard Boiled Humor

Book:Farewell, my lovely

Source: Farewell, my lovely

“But this Hemingway stuff is what really has me down." "A gag," I said. "An old, old gag." "Who is this Hemingway person at all?" "A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good." "That must take a hell of a long time," the big man said.”

Writers On Writing Hemingway Marlowe Hard Boiled Humor

Book:Farewell, my lovely

Source: Farewell, my lovely

“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. “What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could have remained indifferent to the growing intrigue of this individual who apparently shook hands with the devil and freely chose to descend to the molten, sulphuric chasm of Hell for all eternity for so little in exchange. It is a drama that continues to fascinate today as powerfully as when Faustus first disseminated his infamous card in the Heidelberg locale to the scandal of his generation. In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.”

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Book:Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1

Source: Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1

“Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.”

Doe Matter Written Remains Mary Sonnet Lear Does It Matter Marlowe

Author:Noel Coward

“The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.”

Ifs Firsts Feelings Names Gone Changed Office First Time Chosen Marlowe

Author:Kim Novak

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.”

Two Age Talent Months Thirds Assuming Candidates Leisure Two Months Authorship Marlowe

Author:Bill Bryson

“We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —”

Source: The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback

“As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.”

World I Can Use Hands Father Given This World Fool Who You Are Cards Lied Cheated You Lied Marlowe

Author:Claudia Gray

“A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)”

Sides Gentleman Witch Joining Scoundrels Tubs Marlowe

Author:Karen Chance

“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

Book Wish Envy Burned Deadly Sins Book Burning Seven Deadly Sins Sweepers Faustus Seven Sins Marlowe

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”

Stills Running Moving Stars Strikes Clock Faustus Marlowe

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.”

Writing Horror Charlie Marlowe

Book:Out of The Easy

Source: Out of The Easy

“And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.”

Men World Heart Fire Worthy Marlowe

Book:Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems

Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems

“There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.”

People Knows Book Play Notes Corners Sat Spy Dickens Marlowe

Author:John Mortimer