Jekyll and Hyde - most important quotes Flashcards
‘I incline to…
…Cain’s heresy’ (Utterson)
‘The street shone out…
…in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood’
‘I saw that sawbones turn…
…sick and white with the desire to kill him’ (Enfield)
‘There is something wrong with his appearance,…
…something displeasing, something downright detestable’ (Enfield)
‘He began to go…
…wrong, wrong in mind…such unscientific balderdash’ (Lanyon)
‘The moment I choose…
…I can be rid of Mr Hyde’ (Jekyll)
‘With ape-like fury,…
…he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows’
‘If your master…
…is dead, we may at least save his credit’ (Utterson)
‘I concealed…
….my pleasures; and stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life’ (Jekyll)
‘Man is not truly…
…one, but truly two’ (Jekyll)
‘I felt younger, lighter,…
…happier in body…an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul’ (Jekyll)
‘I knew myself…
…to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked’ (Jekyll)