jekyll quotes

Cards (20)

  • "The very pink of proprieties" Ch1
  • "Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me... unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias" Ch2
  • "A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness" Ch3
  • "...hide-bound pedant" Ch3
    Jekyll describes Lanyon
  • "The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes" Ch3
  • "I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man" Ch3
  • " 'I swear to God,' cried the doctor, 'I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again... bind my honour to you that I am done with him' " Ch5
  • "He came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer... now no less distinguished for religion" Ch6
  • "You must suffer me to go my own dark way" Ch6
  • "If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also" Ch6
  • "I am very low, Utterson" Ch7
  • "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" Ch7
  • "It [Jekyll's voice] seems much changed" Ch8
  • "The doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six... all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine" Ch3
  • "I concealed my pleasures" Ch10
  • "I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two" Ch10
  • "I felt younger, lighter, happier in body" Ch10
  • "I knew myself at the first breath of this new life to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil" Ch10
  • "Henry Jekyll had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God" Ch10
  • "I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end" Ch10