Key Quotes - Jekyll and Hyde

Narrator - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “Lean…”

“lean , long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable”

Narrator - Chapter 1(Story of the Door):”He was…”

“He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone”

Narrator - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “Last rep…”

“Last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men”

Narrator - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “It is the…”

“It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Store of the Door): “I was…”

“I was coming home from some place at the end of the world”

Enfield - chapter 1(Story of the Door):“Trampled…”

“Trampled calmly over the child’s body”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door):“It wasn’t…”

“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut”

Enfield - chapter 1(The Story of the door):“Make his…”

“Make his name stink from one end of London to the other”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “But carrying…”

“But carrying it off, sir, really like Satan”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “Very…”

“Very pink of the proprieties”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “The more…”

“The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “He is not…”

“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearence; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarse know why.”

Enfield - Chapter 1(Story of the Door): “he gives…”

“he gives a strong feeling of deformity”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “Friend…”

“Friend and benefactor Edward Hyde”

Lanyon - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “Such…”

“Such unscientific balderdash”

Utterson - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “If he…”

“If he shall be Mr Hyde […] I shall be Mr Seek”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “he was aware…”

“he was aware of an odd light footstep drawing near”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “He was…”

“He was small, and very planily dressed; and the look of him […] went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “Mr Hyde shrank…”

“Mr Hyde shrank back witha hissing intake of the breath”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “The other…”

“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

Narrator - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “Mr Hyde was…”

“Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile”

Utterson - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “If I ever read…”

“If I ever read Satan’s signature upon a face”

Poole - Chapter 2(The Search for Mr. Hyde): “he mostly…”

“he mostly comes and goes by the laboratory”

Narrator - Chapter 3(Dr Jekyll was quite at ease): “a large…”

“a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps,”

Narrator - Chapter 3 (Dr Jekyll was quite at ease): ”the large…”

“the large handsome face of Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness around his eyes”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 3 (Dr Jekyll was quite at ease): “the moment…”

“the moment I choose, I can be rid of hyde”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “aged…”

“aged and beautiful gentleman”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “He had…”

“He had in his hand a heavy cane”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “great…”

“great flame of anger”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “stamping…”

“stamping his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on […] like a madman”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “with…”

“with ape-like fury”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “the bones…”

“The bones were audibly shattered”

Narrator - Chapter 4(The Carew Murder Case): “She had…”

"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent”

Utterson - Chapter 5(Incident of the Letter): “If it came…”

“If it came to a trial, your name might appear”

Narrator - Chapter 5(Incident of the Letter): “Poole…”

“Poole was positive nothing had come”

Mr Guest - Chapter 5(Incident of the Letter): “not mad…”

“not mad, but it is an odd hand”

Mr Guest - Chapter 5(Incident of the Letter): “the two…”

“The two hand are in many points identical”

Utterson - Chapter 5(Incident of the Letter): “Henry Jekyll…”

“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!”

Narrator - Chapter 6(Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon): “He had…”

“He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”

Lanyon - Chapter 6(Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon): “I have had…”

“I have had a shock […] and I shall never recover”

Lanyon - Chapter 6(Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon): “you may…”

“you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 6(Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon): “if I am…”

“if I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”

Utterson - Chapter 6(Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon): “to not be…”

“To not be opened till the death or disappearence of Dr Henry Jekyll”

Narrator - Chapter 7(Incident at the window): “succeded…”

“Sucedded by an expression of such abject terror and despair”

Narrator - Chapter 7(Incident at the Window): “For the…”

“For the window was instantly thrust down”

Utterson - Chapter 7(Incident at the Window): “God…”

“God forgive us! God forgive us!”

Narrator - Chapter 8(The Last Night): “pale moon…”

“pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind has tilted her”

Utterson - Chapter 8(The Last Night): “this was…”

“This was more of a dwarf”

Poole - Chapter 8(The Last Night): “there was…”

“there was something queer about that gentleman”

Poole - Chapter 8(The Last Night): “Weeping…”

“Weeping like a woman or a lost soul”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 8(The Last Night): “Your unworthy…”

“Your unworthy and unhappy friend, Henry Jekyll”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “there was something…”

“there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “Trans…”

“Transcendental medicine”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “O…”

“O God! O God!”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “Like a man…”

“Like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “my soul…”

“my soul sickened at it”

Lanyon - Chapter 9(Dr Lanyon’s Narrative): “My life…”

“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 - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “I con…”

“I concealed my pleasures”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Profound…”

“Profound duplicity of life”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “But from the…”

“But from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame”

"Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “hard law…”

“hard law of life which lies at the root of religion”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “both sides…”

“Both sides of me were in dead earnest”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Man is…”

“Man is not truly one, but truly two”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “I learned…”

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “least…”

“least scruple of an overdose”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “But the temp…”

“But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at my last overcame the suggestions of alarm”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “I felt…”

“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was concious of a heady recklessness, acurrent disordered sensual”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Sold…”

“sold a slave to my original evil”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Evil…”

“Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man)”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “all human…”

“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Edward Hyde…”

“Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “one was…”

“one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “my new…”

“my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “Jekyll had more…”

“Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “My devil…”

“My devil had been long caged, it came out roaring”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “he thought…”

“he thought of Hyde […] as of something not only hellish but inorganic”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “His terror…”

“His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide”

Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10(Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case): “This is…”

“This is the last time, short of a miracle, that Henry Jekyll can think his own 

thoughts”