Hyde Quotes Flashcards
Chapter 1 quotes (all Entfield talking about Hyde)
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body…it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.”
“He gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.”
“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.”
“I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.”
Chapter 2 quotes
“the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy” (narration)
“Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath.” (Narration)
“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh.” (Narration)
“The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?” (Utterson about Hyde)
“If ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face” (Utterson about Hyde)
“he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” (Narration)
Chapter 4 quotes
“All of a sudden he [Hyde] broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.”
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim underfoot…hailing down a storm of blows”
“His victim [Carew] lay in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.”
“The stick with which the deed had been done… had broken under the stress of this insensate cruelty.”
“A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim” (shows this wasn’t a robbery)
Chapter 7 quotes
“The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but for a glimpse” (Jekyll’s transformation)
“There was an an answering horror in their [Utterson and Entfield] eyes.” (Narration)
Chapter 8 quotes
“That thing was not my master.” (Poole about Hyde)
“It is the belief of my heart that there was murder done.” (Poole about Hyde)
“A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.” (Narration)
“that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals” (Poole’s account of Hyde)
“Once I heard it weeping…like a woman or a lost soul” (Poole talking about Hyde)
“There lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.” (Narration about Hyde’s death)
Chapter 9 quotes
“He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness.” (Lanyon about Hyde)
“His face became suddenly black, and the features seemed to melt and alter.” (Lanyon observing Hyde’s transformation)
“A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table, and held on.” (Lanyon observing Hyde’s transformation)
Chapter 10 quotes (all told by Jekyll)
“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”
“Hyde, in danger of his life, was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.”
“[Hyde] was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self.”
“My devil [Hyde] had long been caged, he came out roaring”
“Something not only hellish but inorganic” (Jekyll talking about Hyde)
“The ape-like tricks he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies”
“his [Hyde’s] ape-like spite”
“The powers of Hyde seemed to grow with the sickliness of Jekyll”
Hyde’s dialogue throughout the novella
“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene.” (Hyde to Enfield, Chapter 1)
“For God’s sake…find me some of the old” (Hyde in Jekyll’s note to Messrs Maw, Chapter 10)
“For God’s sake, have mercy!” (Hyde begging Utterson to leave him alone, Chapter 10)
