Jekyll + Hyde: Key Quotations
Here’s a list of key quotations in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, from a range of different characters and covering a variety of themes and ideas. Use this list to help you quote precisely and accurately in essays!
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CHAPTER ONE
MR HYDE: “Mr Hyde”
UTTERSON: "backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, yet somehow loveable"
HYDE: "hellish", "something displeasing", "something downright detestable"
SAWBONES: "Turned sick and white with the desire to kill him"
HYDE: “Trampled calmly over the girl and left her screaming on the ground”, “like some damned juggernaut”
DR. JEKYLL - “Dr”
SETTING: “prolonged and sordid negligence”.
UTTERSON: "Rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile;"
CHAPTER TWO
UTTERSON: "If he is Mr. Hyde… I shall be Mr. Seek"
HYDE: “deformity”, “impression of deformity” + UTTERSON: “Something troglodytic”
UTTERSON: "I thought it was madness,"
UTTERSON: "If anyone knows, it will be Lanyon,"
DR. LANYON: “Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me.”
DR LANYON: “Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias.”
DR LANYON: “began to go wrong, wrong in the mind"
UTTERSON: "Will you let me see your face?"
UTTERSON: "can he, too, have been thinking of the will?"
MR. HYDE: "He never told you," cried Mr Hyde with a flush of anger. "I did not think you would have lied."
UTTERSON: “Pale and dwarfish”
UTTERSON: 'God bless me, the man seems hardly human!”
UTTERSON:: "Poor Harry Jekyll"
CHAPTER THREE
JEKYLL: “unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.”
JEKYLL: “Large, well-made, smooth faced man of fifty”
JEKYLL: likes to invite “intelligent reputable men” to his house.
JEKYLL: “Every mark of capacity and kindness”
JEKYLL: “I would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself, if I could make a choice”
JEKYLL: “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde. I give you my hand upon that”
UTTERSON: "I can't pretend that I shall ever like him,"
JEKYLL: “I only ask for justice; I only ask you to help him for my sake when I am no longer here.”
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