Jekyll and Hyde quotes

Henry Jekyll Quotes

Chapter 2 "Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me" - Dr Lanyon on Jekyll "He began to go wrong, wrong in mind" - Dr Lanyon on Jekyll "bright, open fire...costly cabinets of oak" - Description of Jekyll's home Chapter 3 "smooth faced man of fifty" "every mark of capacity and kindness" "Blackness about his eyes...'You do not understand my position'" - when Utterson asks about Hyde "I can be rid of Hyde" Chapter 5 "dingy, windowless structure...barred with iron" - Jekyll's lab at bottom of the garden "deadly sick...held out a cold hand" "i swear to God...I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again" "I have lost confidence in myself" "he covered his face" Chapter 6  "known for charities...distinguished for religion" "he did good" "face seemed to open and brighten" "the doctor was at peace" (In Jekyll's letter to Utterson) "suffer me to go my own dark way" "I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also" "In a moment, friendship and peace of mind...wrecked" Chapter 7 "like some disconsolate prisoner" "No,no,no; it is quite impossible; I dare not" - when Utterson asks if Jekyll will come outside "smile was struck out of his face" "(Jekyll's expression) froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below" Chapter 8 "different from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll" (Talking about footsteps in Jekyll's lab) "Your unworthy and unhappy friend, Henry Jekyll" (In Jekyll's letter to Utterson) Chapter 9 (Jekyll about himself) "Labouring under a blackness of distress" "Serve me, my dear Lanyon, and save your friend, HJ" "under the seal of our profession...you who have denied to virtue to transcendntal medicine" - Jekyll to Lanyon "groping before him...like a man restored from death" (Jekyll forming from Hyde) Chapter 10 "it came about that i concealed my pleasures" "morbid sense of shame" "hard law of life which lies at the root of religion" "both sides of me were in dead earnest" "man is not truly one, but truly two" "I knew well that i risked death" "something strange in my sensations" - When Jekyll first turned to Hyde "sold a slave to my origional evil" "the inmates of my house" (e.g Poole) " the evil side of my nature...was less robust and less developed than the good" "This, too, was myself" - Jekyll on Hyde "(Jekyll's) Reputation sat under shelter" "his conscience slumbered" "(jekyll) suffers...in the fires of abstinance" - Jekyll preventing himself turning to Hyde "the liberty...youth...light step...leaping pulses...secret pleasures" - Jekyll talking about himself as Hyde "My devil had been long caged, he came roaring out" "I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow...cold thrill of terror" - Jekyll talking about Hyde murdering Carew "l locked the door...ground the key under my heel" - Jekyll on shutting out Hyde after the murder "Jekyll was now my city of refuge" "I was seized again with those indescribable sensations" - Jekyll unexpectedly turning to Hyde "It was always as Hyde that i awakened"

Edward Hyde Quotes

Chapter 1 "certain sinister block of building thrust forward" "the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence" - Hydes house "trampled calmly" "Hellish" "perfectly cool and made no resistance" "so ugly it brought out the sweat on me like running" "black sneering coolness...really like satan" "downright detestable" "strong feeling of deformity...could't specify a point" Chapter 2 "human Juggernaut" "savage laugh" "Pale and dwarfish" "hardly human...troglodytic" Chapter 4 "ill-contained impatience" "flame of anger" "clubbed him to the earth...apelike fury" "bones were audibly shattered" "(Utterson) quailed in the name of Hyde" "furnished with luxury and good taste" - Hyde's home Chapter 8  "masked thing like a monkey" "sorely contorted and still twitching" - Hyde's body "(Utterson was) looking on the body of a self-destroyer" Chapter 9 "on fire with sombre excitement" - Hyde when Lanyon gave him the chemicals  "so lively was his impatience" "(Hyde) thanked me with a smiling nod" "the creature" Chapter 10 "evil was written broadly and plainly on (his) face" "Edward Hyde alone...pure evil" "Hyde alone...was guilty" "the body of Edward Hyde had grown in stature" "despised and friendless" "the liberty...youth...light step...leaping pulses...secret pleasures" - Jekyll talking about himself as Hyde "My devil had been long caged, he came roaring out" - Jekyll on Hyde "I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow...cold thrill of terror" - Jekyll talking about Hyde murdering Carew "chained down...began to growl for license" (Hyde within Jekyll) "the animal within me licking the chops of memory" - Jekyll on Hyde "lusting to inflict pain" "nothing lived in him but fear and hatred" - Jekyll about Hyde "apelike tricks he would play (on Jekyll)"

Mr Utterson Quotes

Chapter 1 "rugged countenance" "never lighted by a smile...yet somehow loveable" "although he enjoyed the theatre...had not crossed the doors of one for 20 years" "good influence in the lives of down going men" Chapter 2 "his custom of a sunday" "lover of the sane" "Utterson began to haunt the door" "If he be Mr Hyde.. I shall be Mr Seek" Chapter 3 "unobtrusive company" "I am a man to be trusted" "My good Utterson...put your good heart at rest" - Jekyll on Utterson I would trust you before any man alive" - Jekyll on Utterson Chapter 6 "he condemned his fear as a disloyalty" "a great curiosity came to (him)" "professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations" Chapter 7  I feel as if the presence of a friend may do (Jekyll) good" "God forgive us! God forgive us" - After seeing Jekyll's change in expression at the window Chapter 8 "Take a seat, and here is a glass of wine for you" - To Poole "bourne in upon his mind a crushing anticipation of calamity" "Appalled by their own riot" (Utterson and Poole when breaking down Jekyll's door)

Dr Lanyon Quotes

Chapter 2 "hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman" "welcomed him with both hands" - when Lanyon see's Utterson "Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me" Chapter 6  "death warrent written legibly accross his face" "rosy man had grown pale" "a look in the eye and quality of manner...deep seated terror" "with great firmness Lanyon declared himself a doomed man" "held up a trembling hand" Chapter 8  "my arm raised to shield me" "my mind submerged in terror" "'O God' I screamed, and 'O God' again and again" "my soul sickened...deadliest terror"

Mr Enfield Quotes

Chapter 1 "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world" "I cannot describe him" - About Hyde "with  a touch of sullenness" - when Enfield is talking to Utterson (Sullenness: silent resentment/irritation) Chapter 7 "Enfield only nodded his head very seriously, and walked on one more in silence" - After seeing Jekyll's expression change at the window 

Duality of man Quotes

Chapter 3 "Large handsome face...grew pale...blackness about his eyes" Chapter 4  "beutiful gentleman...madman" "haunting sense of unexpressed deformity" Chapter 8  "steps fell lightly and oddly...different from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll" Chapter 9 "a man who will present himself in my name" "like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll" Chapter 10  Provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature" "Both sides of me were in dad earnest" "man is not truly one, but truly two" "sold a slave to my origonal evil" "the evil side of my nature was less robust and less developed than the good" "this, too, was myself" "his conscience slumbered" "body of edward Hyde had grown in stature" "the liberty...youth...light step...leaping pulses...secret pleasures" - Jekyll talking about himself as Hyde "My devil had been long caged, he came roaring out" "divided ecstasy of mind"  "Jekyll was now my city of refuge" "animal within me" "I now had two characters as well as two appearances" "Evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul"

Violence

Chapter 1 "girl of eight or ten...trampled calmly...hellish" - Hyde in story Chapter 2 "at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming" - Hyde in Utterson's nightmare "savage laugh" - Hyde when talking to Utterson Chapter 4 "great flame of anger" "brandishing the cane" "Clubbed him to the earth" "hailing down a storm of blows" "bones were audibly shattered" Chapter 7  "the smile was struck out of his face" Chapter 9  "Arm raised to shield me from that prodigy" - Lanyon when seeing Hyde transform  Chapter 10  "I mauled the un-resisting body, tasting delight from every blow" - Jekyll talking about the murder of Carew when he was Hyde "(Hyde was) lusting to inflict pain" "gust of devilish fury"

Science and the unexplained

Chapter 5 "the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent" Chapter 6 "whom i regard as dead" - Lanyon after knowing about Jekyll's experiments  Chapter 8 "crying night and day for some sort of medicine" "Why did he have a mask on his face? why did he cry out like a rat and run from me?" - Poole when he saw Hyde, thinking it was Jekyll "masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals" - Poole on Hyde Chapter 9  "(phial) half full of blood red liquor...highly pungent to the sense of smell" "dark purple... to a watery green" - (Purple is associated with wisdom, mystery, magic, and royalty. Green could accosiate with jelously and ambition) "under the seal of our profession" "you who has been bound to the  narrow and material views...denied the virtue of transcendental medicine" - Jekyll to Lanyon "staring with injected eyes" Chapter 10 "drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity" "something strange in my sensations" - When Jekyll transformed  "the drug...neither diabolical nor divine" "divided ecstasy of mind" "in my own house and close to my drugs" - Jekyll's relief after suprisingly transforming "only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll" - Jekyll cannot control transformations "when the virtue of the medicine wore off"    

The Victorian gentleman and his reputation

Chapter 1 "although he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years"  " (Mr Utterson's) friendships founded in a similar catholicity of good nature" "i am ashamed of my long tongue" Chapter 2 "his custom of a sunday" "lover of the sane" Chapter 3 "sobering their minds in the man's rich silence" - Guests on why they like to spend time with Utterson Chapter 4 "beautiful gentleman with white hair...moon shone on his face" - Carew Chapter 5  "thinking of my own character, which this hateful buisness has exposed" Chapter 7  "Take a seat, and here is a glass of wine for you" - after Poole arrives looking worried Chapter 8  "something queer about that Gentleman" - Poole on Hyde (still referring to Hyde as a Gentleman) Chapter 9 "a curiosity to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world" - Lanyon wondering about Hyde before he knew he was Jekyll Chapter 10 "high views that i had set before me" - Jekyll "stranger in my own house" - Jekyll when he was Hyde (Hyde does not fit high class) "all human beings are commingled of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone...was pure evil" - Jekyll "immunities of my position" - Jekyll "men before have hired bravos to transect their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter" - Jekyll "like a schoolboy...spring into a sea of liberty" - Jekyll about how Hyde gave him liberty from having status. "Jekyll was now my city of refuge" - where Jekyll could hide from the crimes of Hyde

Friendship

Chapter 1 " (Mr Utterson's) friendships founded in a similar catholicity of good nature Chapter 2 "welcomed him with both hands" - Lanyon greeting Utterson Chapter 3 "Cherished for Utterson a sincere and warm affection" "i would trust you before any man alive" "I promise" - Utterson agreeing to carry out Jekyll's will Chapter 6 "renewed relationships with his friends" - Jekyll  "in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends" - Jekyll, Utterson and Lanyon "(must not) doubt my friendship if my door is shut even to you" - Jekyll in a letter to Utterson "In  a moment, friendship and peace of mind...wrecked" "professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations" Chapter 7 "I feel as if the presence of a friend may do him some good" Chapter 9 "my life, my honour, my reason are all at your mercy" - Jekyll to Lanyon "serve me dear Lanyon, and save, Your friend, HJ" "I felt bound to do as he requested" - Lanyon when asked to collect Jekyll's chemicals  

Urban Gothic

Chapter 1 "certian sinister block of buildings thrust forwards" "some place at the end of the world" "street after street...street after street" "all as empty as a church" Chapter 2 "see it (Hyde) glide more stealthily through sleeping houses" "wider labyrinths of lamp lighted city "Low growl of London" Chapter 4 "crime of singular ferocity" "brilliantly lit by the full moon" "incredibly mangled" - Carew's murder "some city in a nightmare" Chapter 7 "Court was very cool and a little damp...full of premature twilight" - Jekyll's court Chapter 9  "expect my messenger at midnight" "dark purple...green" (phial of chemicals) "staring with injected eyes...groping before him with his hands" "like a man restored from death" Chapter 10 "the constellations looked down upon me" (constellations - stars) - Jekyll  "men have hired bravos to transect their crowns" - Jekyll "divided ecstasy of mind"  

Fear and Horror

Chapter 1 "trampled calmly" Chapter 2 "crush a child and leave her screaming" "savage laugh" Chapter 3 "face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips" Chapter 4 "the details were few and startling" "broke out in a great flame of anger" "stamping...brandishing...clubbed...trampling...shattered" "bones were audibly shattered" "incredibly mangled" - Carew's body Chapter 5 "Dr Jekyll looking deadly sick...held out a cold hand" (fear for himself after Carew murder) "close up to the warmth" - wants light near  Chapter 6 "death warrant written legibly upon his face" - Lanyon "(Utterson) condemned his fear as a disloyalty" Chapter 7 "an expression of such abject terror and despair" - Jekyll at the window "God forgive us! God forgive us!" Utterson after seeing Jekyll transform at the window" Chapter 8  "I'm afraid" - Poole when he is worried about Jekyll being locked up in lab "he had not once looked the lawyer in the face" - Poole  "They're all afraid" - Poole about Jekyll's servants  "(Utterson's nerves) gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance" "(Hyde's) mere animal terror" "the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching" - Hyde's body Chapter 9 "I have a morbid fear" - Jekyll "fresh terror struck upon my soul" - Jekyll when realising post office may fail to deliver his letter to Lanyon on time "my mind submerged in terror" - Lanyon Chapter 10  "I mauled the unresisting body" - Jekyll talking about murdering Carew "Cold thrill of terror" - Jekyll after he killed Carew "A moment before i had been safe" - Jekyll panicking after he turns to Hyde in the middle of the park "sitting alone with his fears" - Hyde in his hotel room while waiting for Lanyon to complete his task "nothing lived in him but fear and hatred" - Jekyll about Hyde "the horror of being Hyde" - Jekyll's opinion on Hyde changes "(Jekyll is) a creature eaten up and emptied by fever"- after loosing control "weak in both body and mind...occupied by the horror of my other self" - (Jekyll) "he fears my power to cut him off by suicide" - Jekyll about Hyde  

Curiosity

Chapter 2 "inordinate curiosity" - Utterson wanting to see Hydes face "like a man in mental perplexity" (Utterson) Chapter 4 "the details were few and startling" - (about Carew's murder) Chapter 5 "Mr Utterson found his way to Dr Jekyll's door" - Utterson naturally goes to Jekyll's to investigate after murder "eyed the dingy windowless structure with curiosity" - Utterson Chapter 6 "to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries" - Utterson "one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it" - Utteson Chapter 8 "What brings you here?...what ails you?...is the doctor ill?" - When Poole arrives looking worried Chapter 9 "curiosity to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world" - Lanyon on Hyde  "moral turpitude (Wicked) that man unveiled to me...cannot dwell on it without a start of terror" - Lanyon after seeing Hyde transform (danger of curiosity)  Chapter 10 "my evil kept awake my ambition" - jekyll  "I smiled at the notion (of turning to Hyde)"  

Repression

Chapter 1 "although he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years" - Utterson Chapter 6 "(must not) doubt my friendship if my door is shut even to you" - Jekyll in a letter to Utterson (repressing friendship) Chapter 10 "I concealed my pleasures" - Jekyll "sold a slave to my original evil" - Jekyll "the inmates of my house" - Jekyll "evil was written broadly and plainly on the face (of Hyde)" - Jekyll, unable to repress "shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition" - Jekyll about the drug "my new power tempted me till i fell in slavery" - Jekyll "I bade a resolute farewell to the liberty...youth...light step...leaping pulses and secret pleasures" - Jekyll not turning into Hyde anymore "(Jekyll was) tortured with throes and longings" - when he was stopping himself from transforming to Hyde "Hyde was struggling after freedom" "My devil had been long caged, he came roaring out" "I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the hideous images" - Jekyll not wanting the memory of murdering Carew "confined to the better part of my existance" "I locked the door...ground the key" - Jekyll wanting to repress Hyde "chained down...began to growl for licence" - Jekyll about his darker nature "only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll" - Jekyll cannot control transformations "the powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll"