Essential quotes Flashcards
Chapter 2
“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
Chapter 1
“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” … “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Chapter 10
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.”
Chapter 10 hyde
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
Chapter 10
“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory.”
Chapter 6
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
Chapter 4
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered.”
Chapter 1 Hellish scene
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.”
Chapter 1 duality in setting
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest.”
Chapter 5
“I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again…”
Chapter 1 (Hindu God)
'’it was like some damned Juggernaut’’
Chapter 1 (Hyde’s house)
'’sinister block of building’’
Chapter 1 (Utterson)
'’rugged’’ -] ‘‘somehow lovable’’
Chapter 2 (Damon)
difference between Jekyll and Dr Lanyon ‘‘would have estranged Damon and Pythias’’
Chapter 4 (London Fog)
‘chocolate-coloured pall’
