Faustus Quotes

• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

  Christopher Marlowe

  Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Running, Stars, Moving

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 2 (1604)

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• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Limits, Hell

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.139

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• ... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Heaven, World, Hell

  Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

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• Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ships, Faces, Towers

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).

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• 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

  Self, Wings, Heaven

  Christopher Marlowe (2005). “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, p.49, Routledge

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• FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Country, Art, Stars

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe (2010). “Faust, Part I, Egmont and Hermann, Dorothea, Dr Faustus: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XIX (in 51 Volumes)”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Joy, Heaven, World

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Cutting, Night, Blood

  Christopher Marlowe (1994). “Dr. Faustus”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sin, Deceiving, Everlasting

  Christopher Marlowe (2007). “Doctor Faustus - Second Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Envy, Wish

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• Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Stars, Giving, Soul

  Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmussen (1998). “Doctor Faustus and Other Plays”, p.148, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Art, Men, Dies

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.51, Hackett Publishing

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• All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Heaven, Hell

  Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

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• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Certain, Friars, Taxes

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Fall, Pleasure

  Christopher Marlowe, William Oxberry (1818). “Doctor Faustus: a tragedy”, p.62

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• You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Death, Stars, Astrology

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 5, sc. 2

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• 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

  Cutting, Men, Apollo

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 3 (1604)

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• 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.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Fall, Two, Evil

  E. A. Bucchianeri (2008). “Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World”, p.100, AuthorHouse

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• Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Mother, Inspiration, Moon

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

  Michele Bardsley

  Heart, Enemy, Vampire

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• A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Winning, Years

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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