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Top Ten Quotes (from novelguide.com)

1) "If we say that we have no sin
We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.
Why then, belike, we must sin,
And consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death."
--Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 41-46: Faustus to himself

2) "Oh 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."
--Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 69-71: Good angel to Faustus

3) "How am I glutted with conceit of this!
Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,
Resolve me of all ambiguities,
Perform what desperate enterprise I will?"
--Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 77-80: Faustus to himself

4) "Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?"
--Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 76-80: Mephostophilis to Faustus

5) "Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned?
And canst thou not be saved?
What boots it then to think on God or heaven?
Away with such vain fancies and despair,
Despair in God and trust in Beelzebub.
Now go not backward.  No, Faustus, be resolute.
Why waverest thou? Oh, something soundeth in mine
Ears
Abjure this magic, turn to God again."
--Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 1-8: Faustus to himself

6) "Oh gentle Faustus, leave this damned art,
This magic, that will charm they soul to hell,
And quite bereave thee of salvation.
Though thou hast now offended like a man,
Do not persever in it like a devil."
--Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 35-39: Old man to Faustus

7) "Accursed Faustus, wretch, what hast thou
done?
I do repent, and yet I do despair.
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?"
--Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 68-71: Faustus to himself

8) "Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies.
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again."
--Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 99-101: Faustus to Helen of Troy

9) "No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
The clock strikes twelve.
Oh, it strikes, it strikes! Now body turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
Oh soul, be changed into little water drops
And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found.
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.
Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile.
Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer!"
--Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 191-199: Faustus to himself

10) "Cut is the branch that might have grown full
straight,
--Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 20-28: Chorus to audience

The Prologue

• 'heavenly verse'
• 'perform the form of Faustus' fortunes'
• 'base of stock'
• 'he profits in divinity'
• 'swoll'n with cunning of a self-consceit'
• 'his waxen wings'
• 'melting heaven conspired his overthrow'
• 'devilish exercise'
• 'glutted more with learning's golden gifts'
• 'cursed necromancy'
• nothing so sweet as magic is to him,\ which he prefers before his chiefest bliss'

Act 1 Scene 1

• 'live and die in Aristotle's works./Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravished me!'
• 'Bene disserere est finis logices'- Ramus, the main purpose of logic is to argue well
• 'Bid On kai me farewell'
• 'Physic, farewell'
• Justinian- 'his study fits a mercenary drudge\who aims at nothing but external trash'
• 'Exhaereditare filium non potest pater nisi-' (A father may not disinherit his son unless-)
• 'divinity is best'
• 'the reward of sin is death'
• 'divinity adieu!'
• 'necromantic books are heavenly'
• ' a world of proit and delight,\ Of power, of honour, of omnipotence'
• 'all things that move between the quiet poles\Shall be my command.'
• 'raise the wind or rend the clouds'
• 'his dominion...stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man'
• 'a sound magician is a mighty God'
• 'wherein all nature's treasury is contained.'-Evil Angel
• 'Lord and commander of these elements'-Evil Angel
• 'ransack the ocean for oriental pearl'
• 'wall all of Germany with brass'
• ' make swift Rhine circle fair Wittenburg'
• 'chase the Price of Parma from our land'
• 'philosophy is odious and obscure\Both law and physic are for petty wits;\Divinity is basest of the three, unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and vile'
• ''Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me'
• 'canonise us' (make us saints)
• 'the miracles which magic perform'
• 'the spirits tell me they can dry the sea'- Cornelius
• 'O this cheers my soul'
• 'lusty grove'(Faustus)\'solitary grove'(Valdes)
• 'Valdes first let him know the words of art' (Cornelius)
• 'This night I'll conjure, though I die thereore'