Dr Faustus Key Quotes Flashcards
The reward…
“The reward of sin is death. That’s hard.” (Act1, scene1, line 40)
The miracles…
“the miracles that magic will perform, will make thee vow to study nothing else” (act1, scene 1, line 138-139)
Faustus, lay…
“Faustus, lay that damned book aside and gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul and heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head!” (Good Angel, 72-74)
A sound…
“A sound magician is a mighty god. Here, Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity.” (Act 1, scene 1, line 65)
Within this…
“Within this circle is Jehovah’s name,
Forward and backward angrammatised”
I charge thee…
“ I charge thee to return and change thy shape.
Thou art to ugly to attend on me”
No, I came…
“No, I came now hither of mine own accord”
Why, this is…
“Why, this is hell nor am I out of it”
Learn of…
“Learn of Faustus manly fortitude”
O, I’ll tickle…
“O, I’ll tickle the pretty wenches plackets!”
To him I’ll build…
“To him I’ll build an altar and a church,
And offer lukewarm blood of new-born-babes” (Act 2 sc 1)
But Mephistopheles, my blood…
“But Mephistopheles, My blood congeals, and I can write no more”
Homo…
“Homo, Fuge! Yet shall not Faustus Fly.”
Come, I think…
“Come, I think hell’s a fable”
O, thou…
“O , thou art deceived.”
I am envy…
“I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife” Act 2 sc 3
O this feeds…
“O this feeds my soul!” Act 2 sc 3
Snatching…You say…
(Snatching the dish) “You say true, I’ll ha’t”
How into an…
“How, into an ape? That’s brave”
But such spirits…
“But such spirits can lively resemble Alexander and his paramour shall appear before your Grace..” Act 4 sc 1
What art thou, Faustus…
“What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Thy fatal time doth draw to a final end.”
Her lips…
“Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies!”
Fair nature’s…
“Fair nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day that Faustus may repent and save his soul!”
Cursed be the…
“ Cursed be the parents that engendered me! No Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven”
Ugly hell…
“Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer! I’ll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles!”
Cut is the branch…
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man”
I would lift…
“I would lift my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them”
God forbade…
“God forbade it, but Faustus hath done it”
