Handy Doctor Faustus Quotes

Chorus: "falling to a devilish exercise"

Chorus: "cursed necromancy"

Faustus: "necromantic books are heavenly!"
(lol such irony)

Faustus: "try thy brains to gain a deity"

Good Angel: "lay that damned book aside"

Faustus: "Divinity is...unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and vile"

Faustus: "This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore"

First Scholar: "he is fallen into that damned art"

Faustus: "the gloomy shadow of the earth"
(pathetic fallacy)

Faustus: "Go and return an old Franciscan friar, that holy shape becomes a devil best"

Mephistopheles: "pray devoutly to the prince of hell"

Faustus: "Faustus... confounds hell in Elysium"
(can't see any distinction between Christian hell and pagan heaven - doesn't believe in damnation)

Mephistopheles: "leave these frivolous demands"
(asking him about hell)

Faustus: "live in all voluptuousness"

Wagner: "he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw"

Robin: "if I were your man, I should be full of vermin"

Faustus: "trust in Beelzebub"

Faustus: "Faustus will not turn to God again...luke warm blood of new born babes"

Robin: "the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked"

Faustus: "I am wanton and lascivious, and cannot live without a wife"

Faustus: "My blood congeals and I can write no more"

Faustus: "I should have slain myself had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair"

Lucifer: "Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just"

Faustus: "burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers... pull his churches down"

Pride: "I disdain to have any parents"

Covetousness: "I... desire... all... people... turned to gold"

Wrath: "I... run... wounding myself when I had nobody to fight"

Envy: "must thou sit and I stand?"

Gluttony: "thirty meals a day... a small trifle"

Sloth: "you have done me great injury to bring me"

Lechery: "loves an inch of raw mutton"

Faustus: "this feeds my soul"

Mephistopheles: "I have taken up his holiness' privy chamber for our use"

Pope: "prepare a dirge to lay the fury of this ghost"

Robin: "an ape?... I'll get nuts and apples"

Chorus: "his friends and nearest companions - Did gratulate his safety with kind words"

Faustus: "I'll walk on foot"
(wasting time)

Horse-Courser: "Master Fustian"
(fustian = the name given to overblown bragging speech)

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

Faustus: "I have heard great-bellied women do long for some dainties"

Wagner: "banquet, and carouse, and swill, amongst the students"
(gluttony)

Old Man: "thy saviour sweet... alone must wash away thy guilt"

Mephistopheles: "Revolt, or I'll in piecemeal tear thy flesh"

Faustus: "Her lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!"
(lol such irony)

Faustus: "Wittenberg be sacked"

Old Man: "My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee!"

Faustus: "had I lived with thee, then had I lived still but now I die eternally"

Faustus: "I would lift up my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them!"

Faustus: "for the vain pleasure of four-and-twenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy"
(what an idiot)

Faustus: "All beasts are happy"

Faustus: "Cursed be the parents that engendered me"

Faustus: "Ah, Mephistopheles!"
(bromance)

Chorus: "Regard his hellish fall"