dr faustus key quotes

glutted more with learning’s …

golden gifts, he surfers upon cursed necromancy

the read no more …

thou hast attainted the end

necromantic books …

are heavenly

all things that move between …

the quiet poles shall be at my command

his dominion that …

exceeds in this stretchers as far as doth the mind of man

when all is done …

divinity is best

here, Faustus, try …

thy brains to gain a deity

how pliant is …

this Mephistopheles, full of obedience and humility

I charge three wait upon me …

whilst I live, to do whatever Faustus shall command

why this is …

hell, nor am I out of it

O, might I see …

hell and return again, how happy were I then

this night I’ll …

conjure, though I die therefore

now I die …

eternally

for vain pleasure of …

four-and-twenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy and felicity

no what thou but one …

bare hour to live, and then thou must be damned perpetually

see where Christ’s …

blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop

whose deepness doth entice …

such forward wits to practice more than heavenly power permits

well I will cause two …

devils presently to fetch thee away - Ball and Belcher

so I should be called …

‘Kill devil’ all the parish over

how no, who’s that which …

snatched the meat from me?

my lord it may be some …

ghost, newly crept out of purgatory

I know he would give his soul …

to the devil for a shoulder of mutton

I had need it well …

roasted, and a good sauce to it, if I pay so dear

bind yourself presently unto me for …

seven years, or I’ll turn all the lice about thee into familiars

I prithee, Faustus, …

talk not of a wife

Nan Spit, our kitchen maid, then …

turn her and wind her to thy own use as often as thou wilt

shall I have Nan Spit …

and to mine own use

(Aside) I’faith, that’s …

nothing at all

(Aside) Ay, marry, master Doctor, now there’s a sign of …

grace in you, when you will confess the truth

that's as true as …

Diana turned me to a stag

Enter the KNIGHT with …

a pair of horns on his head

I have been here all day seeking …

one Master Fustian

If he had but the quality of …

hey, ding, ding, hey, ding, ding

O, my leg …

my leg! Help Mephistopheles!

yet art thou still but …

Faustus, and a man

I’ll have them wall all …

Germany with brass

fill the public schools …

with silk

now his fame is …

spread forth in every land

so he will buy my …

service with his soul

his waxen wings did mount …

above his reach and melting heavens conspired his overthrow

my blood congeals …

and I can write no more

curse Lucifer …

that hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven

I’ll burn …

my books

if I had as many souls as ..

there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles

to God? he …

loves thee not

my heart’s so hardened …

I cannot repent

I am resolved …

Faustus shall never repent

bell, book and candle …

candle, book and bell forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell

Ay, but Faustus never …

shall repent

thou hast deprived …

me of these joys

then swords and knives …

poison, guns, halters and envenomed steel are laid before me to dispatch myself

I prevail to guide …

thy steps unto the way of life

leave me a while to …

ponder on my sins

we fly in hope to get his …

glorious soul

O Faustus, lay that damned …

book aside […] Read, read the Scriptures

think of …

heaven and heavenly things

I see an …

angel hover o’er thy head […] call for mercy and avoid despair

you stars that …

reigned at my nativity whose influence has allotted death and hell

curst be the …

parents that engendered me

are not thy bills …

hung up as monuments

summum bonum …

medicinae sanitas

tell me who made …

the world / I will not / move me not, for I will not tell thee

the iterating of these …

lines brings gold

all spells and …

incantations

what will not I do to …

obtain his soul

unhappy spirits that fell …

with Lucifer, conspired against our God with Lucifer, and are forever damned with Lucifer

not tormented with …

ten thousand hells in being deprived of everlasting bliss

I arrest thy soul for …

disobedience to my sovereign lord

as great as have the …

human souls of men

Solamen miseris …

socios habuisse doloris

I charge thee to return and …

change thy shape, thou art too ugly to attend on me

I am Pride, …

I disdain to have any parents

O, this feeds …

my soul

in hell is all manner …

of delight

how am I vexed with these …

villains charms

I hither come only for …

pleasure of these damned slaves

well villains, for your presumption I …

transform thee into an ape and thee into a dog

and, sir knight, hereafter …

speak well of scholars

I will make all the maidens in …

our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me

thou damned wretch and …

execrable dog […] how dare thou thus abuse a gentlemen

yes, I know; …

but that follows not

God in …

heaven

for is not he …

corpus naturale? And is not that mobile?

I pray you, let him have him. He is an …

honest fellow, and he has a great charge, neither wife nor child

I think my master means to die shortly, for …

he hath given to me all his goods

his faith is great …

I cannot touch his soul

touching his journey through …

the world and air

that time may cease …

and midnight never come

a year, a month …

a week, a natural day

here comes his…

boy

they were never so …

knocked since they were devils

I can make thee drunk at …

any tavern in Europe for nothing

I am Wrath […] I leapt out of …

a lion’s month when I was scare half an hour old

I think hell’s a …

fabel

sweet Helen, make me …

immortal with a kiss

we have determined with ourselves that …

Helen of Greece was the most admirable lady that ever lived

I see your courteous …

intent to pleasure me

God will …

pity thee

thou art a spirit; God …

cannot pity thee

too …

late