74 Quotes About Faust

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

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

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.

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

„Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

-what good for us this endless creating? / what is created - then annihilating? \ '& now IT'S PAST'!.. '" --Mephistopheles (Faust; Pt II)

„Bin weder Fräulein, weder schön,kann ungeleitet nach Hause gehn.