Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Christopher Marlowe
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
Author
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Canterbury
United Kingdom
Kit Marlowe
Full
Branch
Within
Burned
Gone
Branches
Faustus
Might
Grown
Bough
Men
Straight
Laurel
Cutting
Laurels
Grew
Sometime
Learned
Apollo
More quotes by Christopher Marlowe
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
Christopher Marlowe
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
Christopher Marlowe
... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Christopher Marlowe
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe
Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Christopher Marlowe
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
Christopher Marlowe
Infinite riches in a little room.
Christopher Marlowe
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
Christopher Marlowe
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
Christopher Marlowe
What feeds me destroys me.
Christopher Marlowe
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
Christopher Marlowe
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the doveThat is--more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Christopher Marlowe
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Christopher Marlowe
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.
Christopher Marlowe
