Just a few quotes from Christopher Marlowe's play 'Doctor Faustus' covering the themes of religion, power, the supernatural and renaissance.
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Created by Joe Brown
almost 9 years ago
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"If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die." - Faustus (end of his opening soliloquy)
"Think’st thou that I, who 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?" - Mephastophilis
"To practise more than heavenly power permits" - Faustus
"honour and wealth" - Faustus
"Now I will make all the maidens of our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me" - Robin
"return an old Franciscan friar;/That holy shape becomes a devil best" - Faustus
In regard to Lucifer's downfall - "by aspiring pride and insolence; For which God thrrew him from the face of heaven" - Mephistophilis
"These necromantic books are heavenly" - Faustus
"Yet art thou still but Faustus and a man" - Faustus
"Marriage is but a ceremonial toy" - Mephistophilis
"let me have a wife.../For I am wanton and lasviovious" - Faustus.
The sight of the Seven Deadly sins will "be as pleasing" to Faustus "As Paradise was to Adam and Eve"
"Now I die eternally" - Faustus
"Had I as many souls as there be stars/I'd give them all for Mephistophilis" - Faustus
"Try thy brains to gain a deity" - Faustus
"A sound magician is a mighty God" - Faustus
