Almost Famous: When Elaine is lecturing Russell over the phone, she ends the call by telling him, "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid".note Though the quote actually originated with poet Basil King
The Master and Margarita contains several references to and quotations from Goethe's Faust, starting with the epigraph.
In Mr. Standfast, the German spy ring uses the closing lines of Goethe's "Wanderer's Nightsong" ("The little birds in the forest are silent." / "Wait, soon you will rest too.") as their sign and countersign.
In The Sign of the Four, Sherlock Holmes twice quotes from Goethe's Faust, once to provide a description of his associate Athelny Jones and once in reference to himself.
depicts Goethe as having to put up with annoying suicidal dandies whose interpretation of his work isn't even their own.