Jekyll and Hyde Quotes Flashcards
I learned to recognize the…
I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.
…even if i could rightly be said to be either,
…even if i could rightly be said to be either, it was only because i was radically both.
I stood already committed….
I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life
I have been doomed to such….
I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one but truly two
The doctor had bought the house…
The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon.
…as he crossed the theatre…
…as he crossed the theater once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent.
[It was] temptation…
[It was] temptation of a discovery so singular and profound.
[Jekyll’s scientific work leads]….
[Jekyll’s scientific work leads] wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental.
Scientific words
Traces - Various - Some white salt - Some strange things.
“I incline to Cain’s heresy….”
“I incline to Cain’s heresy”, he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”.
On the subject of sin:[he]…
On the subject of sin: [he] regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.
He came out of his seclusion….
He came out of his seclusion… became once more the familiar guest and entertainer.
He was now no less…
He was now no less distinguished for religion.
…A large, well-made….
A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of 50, with something of a slyish cast.
“I am very low, Utterson…”
“I am very low, Utterson” replied the doctor drearily; “Very low”.
An expression of such…
An expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
I struck in no more reasonable spirit….
I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything.
If he is Mr Hyde…
If he is Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek.
A rugged countenance…
A rugged countenance that was never lightened by a smile.
The last good influence…
The last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
I shall consider it ….
I shall consider it my duty to break in that door.
Amen….
Amen, Poole.
A singularly strong ….
A singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity.
Pure….
Pure evil.
….with a kind of black sneering coolness….
…with a kind of black sneering coolness - frightened too, I could see that - but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan
The man trampled calmly…
The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground
It wasn’t like a man….
It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut
With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot….
With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered, and the body jumped upon the roadway.
…As there was something abnormal and misbegotten…
As there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me.
