Dr Faustus Quotes Flashcards

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1)“The reward of sin …

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1)“The reward of sin is death. That’s hard.” (Act1, scene1, line 40)

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the miracles that magic ….

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the miracles that magic will perform, will make thee vow to study nothing else” (act1, scene 1, line 138-139)

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o faustus, lay that damned …

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O 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)

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A sound magician …

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A sound magician is a mighty god. Here, Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity.” (Act 1, scene 1, line 65)

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Within this circle …

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Within this circle is Jehovah’s name,
Forward and backward angrammatised”

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I charge thee to return …

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I charge thee to return and change thy shape.
Thou art to ugly to attend on me”

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No, I came now hither …

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No, I came now hither of mine own accord”

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Why this is hell …

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Why, this is hell nor am I out of it”

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9
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Learn of Faustus …

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Learn of Faustus manly fortitude”

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O, I’ll tickle …

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O, I’ll tickle the pretty wenches plackets!”

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To him i’ll build …

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To him I’ll build an altar and a church,
And offer lukewarm blood of new-born-babes” (Act 2 sc 1)

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But Mephistopheles, my blood …

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But Mephistopheles, My blood congeals, and I can write no more

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Homo, Fuge! …

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Homo, Fuge! Yet shall not Faustus Fly.

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Come, I think hell’s …

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Come, I think hell’s a fable”

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O, thou art …

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O , thou art deceived.”

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16
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I am Envy, begotten …

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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife” Act 2 sc 3

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O this feeds

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O this feeds my soul!”

18
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You say true …

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You say true, I’ll ha’t”

19
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How, into an …

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How, into an ape? That’s brave”

20
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But such spirits can lively …

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But such spirits can lively resemble Alexander and his paramour shall appear before your Grace..” Act 4 sc 1

21
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What art thou, Faustus …

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What art thou,Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Thy fatal time doth draw to a final end.”

22
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Her lips suck …

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Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies!”

23
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Fair nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and …

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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!”

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Cursed be the parents that engendered me! …

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Cursed be the parents that engendered me! No Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer That hath deprived thee of the joys of heave

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My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.

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My God, my God, look not so fierce on me. Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile. Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer! I’ll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles!”

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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

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  1. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
    And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough,
    That sometime grew within this learned man