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

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike.

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- Edward II, 5.1.

Unhappy Persia, that in former age
Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors,
That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

Infinite riches in a little room.

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 us thus?

Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.).

I'm armed with more than complete steel --

The justice of my quarrel.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

Confess and be hanged.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat -- O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!