English Literature Quotations

• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 4

  'With ape like fury, he was trampling his victim underfoot and hailing down a storm of blows'
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 4

  'The bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway'
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 2

  ' "If he be Mr Hyde", he thought, "I shall be Mr Seek" '
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 7

  'The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair'
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 8

  'The square was full of wind and dust and the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves against the railing'
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 9

  'His face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Chapter 10

  'I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two'
• Kamikaze

  'Dark shoals of fish flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun'
• Kamikaze

  'And once a tuna - the dark prince, muscular and dangerous'
• Kamikaze

  'Sometimes he must have wondered which was the better way to die'
• Checking Out Me History

  'Dem tell me

  Dem tell me

  Dem tell me wat dem want to tell me'
• Checking Out Me History

  'Bandage up me eye to me own history

  Blind me to me own identity'
• Checking Out Me History

  'Nanny

  Far see woman

  Of mountain dream

  Fire woman struggle'
• My Last Duchess

  'Her husband's presence only, called that spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek'
• My Last Duchess

  'I gave commands

  Then all smiles stopped together'
• My Last Duchess

  'As if she ranked my gift of a nine hundred year old name with anybody's gift'
• The Emigrée

  'It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded with an impression of sunlight'
• The Emigrée

  'That child's vocabulary that I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar'
• The Emigrée

  'They accuse me of absence, they circle me

  They accuse me of being dark in their free city'
• Tissue

  'Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things

  Paper thinned by age or touching'
• Tissue

  'What was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites'
• Tissue

  'Of paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent

  Turned into your skin'