Faust Devil Quotes

#1. Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

John Ratzenberger

#2. A learner rather"
Stephen's answer to Deasy who says "You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong." (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)

James Joyce

#3. Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge
for mankind in polished speeches
that are no more than vaporous winds
rustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. What you inherit from your father
must first be earned before it's yours.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. [The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Michio Kaku

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well,
He hardly will be caught a second time.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne
To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,
And not in utter loneliness to live,
Myself at last did to the Devil give!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

Bob Goff

#11. So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.

Minister Faust

#12. Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better.

Steve Krug

#13. What makes you think the devil is a he?

Daniel Nayeri

#14. The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

Robert Breault

#15. Every negative effect needs a positive cure (solution)

Ikechukwu Joseph

#16. We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

Rose Schneiderman

#17. God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

James E. Faust

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. You don't perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are. Each

David Eagleman

#21. Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#22. My obsession. My muse. My enemy. "All

L.J. Shen

#23. 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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#24. Imagination and reality have little in common

Emmanuelle Riva