Browsing Topic Best Marlowe Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!)

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.

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

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.