Handy Doctor Faustus Quotes

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A Levels English Literature (Doctor Faustus) Flashcards on Handy Doctor Faustus Quotes, created by lizzie.lambrou on 08/04/2014.
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Chorus: "falling to a devilish exercise" Prologue, line 22
Chorus: "cursed necromancy" Prologue, line 25
Faustus: "necromantic books are heavenly!" (lol such irony) Act 1, scene 1, line 50
Faustus: "try thy brains to gain a deity" Act 1, scene 1, line 63
Good Angel: "lay that damned book aside" Act 1, scene 1, line 70
Faustus: "Divinity is...unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and vile" Act 1, scene 1, line 109
Faustus: "This night I'll conjure, though I die therefore" Act 1, scene 1, line 167
First Scholar: "he is fallen into that damned art" Act 1, scene 2, line 31
Faustus: "the gloomy shadow of the earth" (pathetic fallacy) Act 1, scene 3, line 1
Faustus: "Go and return an old Franciscan friar, that holy shape becomes a devil best" Act 1, scene 3, line 27
Mephistopheles: "pray devoutly to the prince of hell" Act 1, scene 3, line 55
Faustus: "Faustus... confounds hell in Elysium" (can't see any distinction between Christian hell and pagan heaven - doesn't believe in damnation) Act 1, scene 3, line 60
Mephistopheles: "leave these frivolous demands" (asking him about hell) Act 1, scene 3, line 83
Faustus: "live in all voluptuousness" Act 1, scene 3, line 93
Wagner: "he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw" Act 1, scene 4, line 8
Robin: "if I were your man, I should be full of vermin" Act 1, scene 4, line 25
Faustus: "trust in Beelzebub" Act 2, scene 1, line 5
Faustus: "Faustus will not turn to God again...luke warm blood of new born babes" Act 2, scene 1, line 14
Robin: "the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked" Act 2, scene 2, line 4
Faustus: "I am wanton and lascivious, and cannot live without a wife" Act 2, scene 1, line 146
Faustus: "My blood congeals and I can write no more" Act 2, scene 1, line 62
Faustus: "I should have slain myself had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair" Act 2, scene 3, line 25
Lucifer: "Christ cannot save thy soul, for he is just" Act 2, scene 3, line 86
Faustus: "burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers... pull his churches down" Act 2, scene 3, line 97
Pride: "I disdain to have any parents" Act 2, scene 3, line 113
Covetousness: "I... desire... all... people... turned to gold" Act 2, scene 3, line 124
Wrath: "I... run... wounding myself when I had nobody to fight" Act 2, scene 3, line 130
Envy: "must thou sit and I stand?" Act 2, scene 3, line 140
Gluttony: "thirty meals a day... a small trifle" Act 2, scene 3, line 145
Sloth: "you have done me great injury to bring me" Act 2, scene 3, line 160
Lechery: "loves an inch of raw mutton" Act 2, scene 3, line 165
Faustus: "this feeds my soul" Act 2, scene 3, line 170
Mephistopheles: "I have taken up his holiness' privy chamber for our use" Act 3, scene 1, line 24
Pope: "prepare a dirge to lay the fury of this ghost" Act 3, scene 1, line 75
Robin: "an ape?... I'll get nuts and apples" Act 3, scene 2, line 43
Chorus: "his friends and nearest companions - Did gratulate his safety with kind words" Act 4, chorus 3, line 6
Faustus: "I'll walk on foot" (wasting time) Act 4, scene 1, line 112
Horse-Courser: "Master Fustian" (fustian = the name given to overblown bragging speech) Act 4, scene 1, line 113
Faustus: "What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemned to die?" Act 4, scene 1, line 143
Faustus: "I have heard great-bellied women do long for some dainties" Act 4, scene 2, line 5
Wagner: "banquet, and carouse, and swill, amongst the students" (gluttony) Act 5, scene 1, line 5
Old Man: "thy saviour sweet... alone must wash away thy guilt" Act 5, scene 1, line 46
Mephistopheles: "Revolt, or I'll in piecemeal tear thy flesh" Act 5, scene 1, line 69
Faustus: "Her lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!" (lol such irony) Act 5, scene 1, line 94
Faustus: "Wittenberg be sacked" Act 5, scene 1, line 99
Old Man: "My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee!" Act 5, scene 1, line 116
Faustus: "had I lived with thee, then had I lived still but now I die eternally" Act 5, scene 2, line 4
Faustus: "I would lift up my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them!" Act 5, scene 2, line 34
Faustus: "for the vain pleasure of four-and-twenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy" (what an idiot) Act 5, scene 2, line 41
Faustus: "All beasts are happy" Act 5, scene 2, line 110
Faustus: "Cursed be the parents that engendered me" Act 5, scene 2, line 114
Faustus: "Ah, Mephistopheles!" (bromance) Act 5, scene 2, line 125
Chorus: "Regard his hellish fall" Epilogue, line 4
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