Quotes Tagged With :faustus

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder....

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education....

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

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of....

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous....

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable....

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land....

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending....

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with....