Jeckyll and Hyde Quotes Flashcards
Jekyll
‘A large, well made, smooth faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps’ pg 14
‘I would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself if I could make the choice’ pg 14
‘Smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such subject terror and despair’ pg 26
‘I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.’ pg 24
‘Lead of life exclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship.’ pg 24
‘the worst of my faults was a certain gaiety of disposition’ pg 42
‘committed to a profound duplicity of life’ pg 42
‘my scientific studies […] led wholly towards the mystic and transcendental’ pg 42
‘man is not truly one, but truly two’ pg 42
‘It was the curse of mankind […] that in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling.’ pg 43
Hyde
‘So ugly that it put a sweat on me like running’ pg 5
‘He is not an easy man to describe. There was something wrong with his appearance, something downright displeasing’ Pg 7
‘Really like satan’ pg 5
‘Black sneering coldness’ pg 5
‘Ape-like fury’ pg 16
‘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’ pg 26
‘Something queer about that gentleman … you felt it in your marrow’ pg 31
‘His face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter’ pg 41
‘A stranger in my own house’ pg 44
‘I could hear his teeth grate with the convulsive actions of his jaw’ pg 40
‘His face was so gaustly to see I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.’ pg 40
Utterson
‘Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold scanty and embarrassed in discourse ’ pg 1
‘He drank gin when he was alone to mortify a taste for vintages; and although he enjoyed the theater he had not crossed the door of one for twenty years’ pg 1
‘although he enjoyed the theater he had not crossed the door of one for twenty years’ pg 1
‘Mr Utterson’s nerves, at this unlooked for determination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him off balance’ pg 28
‘’I demand to see you’ He paused a moment, but there was no reply ‘I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused, I must and shall see you’’ Pg 32
‘a great curiosity came on’ pg 25
Lanyon
‘He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face.’ pg 23
‘He is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear” “it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man’ pg 23
The man’s nature and character there was added to a curiosity’ pg 39
‘My arm raised to shield me from that prodogy, my mind submerged in terror’ pg 41
Locked doors / objects
‘The door was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, blister and destained’ pg 4
‘Two doors from one corner’ pg 4
‘he locked the note into his safe’ pg 22
‘down with the door’ pg 32
‘the lock burst in sunder’ pg 33
‘The door was very strong, the lock excellent’ pg 37
‘after two hour’s work, the door stood open’ pg 37
Fog
‘fogged city moon’ pg 10
‘a fog rolled over the city’ pg 15
‘the fog ettled down again’ pg 17
‘the fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city’ pg 21
Masks
‘the masked figure’ pg 31
Documents
‘There he opened his safe,the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr Jekyll’s will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study the contents’ pg 8
Pg 20 ‘Hydes’ letter to Jekyll
Pg 24-5 Lanyons letter to Utterson
Pg34-5 Package of documents addressed to Utterson
Jekylls full statement pg 41-54 (the whole of the last chapter)
Dreams
Uttersons dream pg 9-10
