Jekyll And Hyde Quotes Flashcards
“I incline…” - Utterson
“I incline to Cain’s heresy, that if I am to choose between the devil and the deep sea, I would rather not choose at all.”
“I am ashamed…” - Utterson
“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”
“If he be…” - Utterson
“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
“I have learned…”- Utterson
“I have learned to look on life as a progression, and not as a series of isolated acts.”
“I do not care to…” - Utterson
“I do not care to hear more on this subject; the sight of you proves that I already know too much.”
“I am not the first…” - Utterson
“I am not the first person in this country to have great wealth and to look upon myself as something of a personage.”
“I can’t pretend…” - Utterson
“I can’t pretend that I shall ever like him.” - Referencing Hyde to Jekyll at end of chapter 3
“There is something wrong…” - Utterson
“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.”
“I had taken…” - Utterson
“I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.”
“It is one thing…” - Utterson
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
“All human being…” - Jekyll
“All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil.”
“I had learned to…” - Jekyll
“I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of my sweet-tempered, indulgent, and yet ever-timorous and never-really-knowing Henry Jekyll.”
“Man is not truly…” - Jekyll
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
“I stood already…” - Jekyll
“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.”
“I had been obliged…” - Jekyll
“I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount; and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow of my contentment.”
“I had now two…” - Jekyll
“I had now two characters as well as two professions.”
“It was a curse…” - Jekyll
“It was a curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were this bound together - that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.”
“I felt…” - Jekyll
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill-race in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of soul.”
“It was Hyde…” - Jekyll
“It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired.”
“I have brought…” - Jekyll
“I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name.”
damned … (regarding Hyde)
damned Juggernaut
black sne… (regarding Hyde)
black sneering coolness
murderous mixture… (regarding Hyde)
murderous mixture of timidity and boldness
A dismal… (regarding Hyde)
“A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet”
Snarled… (regarding Hyde)
Snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
Clubbed… (regarding Hyde)
Clubbed him to the earth…with ape-like fury”
Satan’s… (regarding Hyde)
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
That masked…
“That masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”
