Jekyll and Hyde Quotation List Flashcards
“Utterson: ‘I incline to
to Cain’s heresy”
“I saw that Sawbones
turn sick and white with desire to kill him…. “
’I thought it was madness’ he [Mr. Utterson] said as he replaced the obnoxious paper
in the safe ‘and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”
“the man [Mr. Hyde] seems hardly human! Something troglodytic…or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul
that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay continent?… Satan’s signature upon a face.”
“Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds
bounds and clubbed him to the earth.”
“this mournful reinvasion of darkness seemed in the lawyer’s eyes like a district of
of some city in a nightmare”
“the haunting sense of
of unexpressed deformity”
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning”
“disconsolate
prisoner”
“seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer
hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends”
Lanyon: “his face was so ghastly to see that I grew
grew alarmed both for his life and reason.”
“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life…
man is not truly one, but truly two”
“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. ”
“The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were as I have said undignified… But in the hands of Edward Hyde they soon began to turn toward the monstrous…
his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another”
“I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self…
Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.”
