KEY QUOTES JEKYLL AND HYDE

“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man; if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” – Dr. Jekyll

“It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together.” – Dr. Jekyll

“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth… My two natures had memory in common.” – Dr. Jekyll

“I know it sounds fantastic, but the fact is, if I am asked who did destroy Edward Hyde, I shall say I did.” – Dr. Jekyll

“And the lawyer set out homeward with a very heavy heart.” – Narrator

“The more he reflected, the more striking if appeared; and now his reason bore him company, and he was sure of it.” – Narrator

“It bore a great variety of expressions all subdued to a common haunt of terror, but it mostly wore the stamp of inconsolable grief.” – Narrator

“Evil, I fear, founded — evil was sure to come — of that connection.” – Dr. Jekyll

“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again; for there before my eyes — pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands — like a man restored from death — there stood Henry Jekyll!” – Mr. Utterson

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” – Dr. Jekyll

“This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.” – Dr. Jekyll

“Man is not truly one, but truly two.” – Dr. Jekyll

“My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night.” – Dr. Jekyll

“But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.” – Narrator

“The strange episodes of my life, which had so often called out my own incredulous laughter, beheld in me the concentration of all that was gravest and the most imposing to other men.” – Dr. Jekyll NEVER PUT SOMEONE DOWN QUOTES

“Hide-bound pedant, I acknowledge you for my master.” – Dr. Jekyll

“Hyde—alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” – Dr. Jekyll

“I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.” – Dr. Jekyll

“Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.” – Narrator

“It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired.” – Narrator

“Hence, although I feigned to defend myself, I was conscious of a sense of pleasure.” – Dr. Jekyll

“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.” – Dr. Jekyll

“It was a fine, clear, January day, wet underfoot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent’s Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.” – Dr. Jekyll

“Pull yourself together; I believe you fully; I believe in poor Mycroft’s almost supernatural acumen. Do you think I can’t put myself in your place, furiously frustrated, helpless, playing twilight Smith to your railroad Hercules, the utterly impotent off the recorder of the microcosm inside Holmes’ own shorts?” – Mr. Utterson

“In the death of Henry Jekyll, it is expected that his terrors will subside.” – Narrator

“I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” – Dr. Lanyon

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I must remain, to put it so, incurably digitized. But I am rich.” – Dr. Jekyll

“And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.” – Narrator

“The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll.” – Narrator