Mephistopheles Quotes
9 quotes by 6 authors
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
— Thomas Harris
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At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of…
— Joseph Campbell
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I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts…
— Christopher Marlowe
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I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and…
— Joseph Conrad
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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
— Christopher Marlowe
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Mephistopheles Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 9 Mephistopheles Quotes as follows: