Jekyll and Hyde quotes

Mr Utterson the ......... and yet somehow loveable

"Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lightened by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow loveable."

When the wine ......... his eye

"When the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye."

I incline

to Cain's heresy

I was coming home ....... winter morning

"I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning."

The man

trampled calmly over the child's body.

There is something ...... detestable

"There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable."

It was like

some damned Juggernaut.

This was a ...... and decided manner.

"This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner".

He began to go ....... of the man.

"He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man."

Mr Hyde shrank...

back with a hissing intake of breath.

Chapter 2 sematic of Hyde being beyond human

"Snarled", "savage", "pale and dwarfish", "something troglodytic"

Old cronies,...

all intelligent, reputable men.

A large, well-made ........... and kindness

"A large, well-made man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness".

Hide-bound......

pedant

The large handsome ....... about his eyes

"The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes".

The moment I choose,

I can be rid of Mr Hyde.

But I do ......... young man

"But I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man".

And then all of ......... like a madman

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

With ape-like ...... audibly shattered

"With ape-like fury, he was trampling the victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered".

The street shone ....... painted shutters

"The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest, and with its freshly painted shutters"

The smile was ........ two gentlemen below

"The smile was struck-out of his face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below"

"If I am the chief of sinners,

I am the chief of sufferers also"

"The first fog of the season

A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours"

"A great curiosity came upon the trustee,

to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries"

"The packet slept

in the inmost corner of his private safe"

"the red baize

of the cabinet door"

"why did he cry out

like a rat, and run from me?"

"The besiegers,

appalled by their own riot"

Chapter 8 quote reflecting the bleak aftermath of observing Hyde's suicide

"They mounted the stair in silence"

"You might suppose...

that I am going to ask you for something dishonourable to grant"

Chapter 9, Jekyll's message to Lanyon describing his state of mind

"the shipwreck of my reason"

"The less I understood of this

farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance"

Chapter 9, two-word oxymoronic quote from Lanyon about his first impressions of Hyde

"Disgustful curiosity"

"A new province of knowledge

and new avenues to fame"

Chapter 9, Lanyon's reaction to Hyde transforming into Jekyll

"my arm raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror"