Utterson Quotes Flashcards
Chapter 1 quotes
“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile.”
“He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages.”
“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.”
“He had an approved tolerance for others.”
“He was…the last good influence in the lives of down going men”
“I incline to Cain’s heresy. I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Chapter 2 quotes
“It [Jekyll’s will] offended him as both a lawyer and a lover of the sane and customary sides of life.”
“[He was] humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done.”
“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
“This document [will] had long been the lawyer’s eyesore.”
“The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?” (Utterson about Hyde)
Chapter 3 quotes
“Where Utterson was liked, he was well liked”
“I am a man to be trusted.”
“I make no doubt I can get you out of it.” (Utterson to Jekyll)
Chapter 4 quotes
“This [Carew’s murder] was brought to the lawyer the next morning, before he was out of bed.”
“The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend’s [Jekyll’s] feverish manner.”
Chapter 5 quotes
“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” (Utterson suprised)
“The lawyer’s head grew heavy as he sat down to think.”
Chapter 6 quotes
“But professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations.” (Reflects Utterson’s respect for confidentiality despite his curiosity in Lanyon’s letter.)
“I have buried one friend today,…. what if this [Lanyon’s letter] should cost me another?”
Chapter 7 quotes
“God forgive us, God forgive us,” (Utterson after witnessing Jekyll’s transformation)
Chapter 8 quotes
“This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it.”
“Your master, Poole, [Jekyll] is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer.”
“There lay the body of a man [Hyde] sorely contorted and still twitching.”
Chapter 9 quotes
“He was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers.” (Utterson refkecting on Hyde)
