| Quote |
Character |
Chapter |
| “as emotionless as a bagpipe... he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.” |
Enfield |
Story of the Door |
| “The face of a man who was without bowels of mercy.” |
Utterson |
Search for Mr Hyde |
| “a face which had but to show itself to raise up [...] a spirit of enduring hatred.” |
Narrator |
Search for Mr Hyde |
| “Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.” |
Narrator |
Search for Mr Hyde |
| “murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” |
Narrator |
Search for Mr Hyde |
| “He was wild when he was young [...] Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace; punishment coming [...] years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.” |
Utterson |
Search for Mr Hyde |
| “Never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world.” |
Narrator |
The Carew Murder Case |
| “it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition, yet with something high too” |
Narrator |
The Carew Murder Case |
| “the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness.” |
Narrator |
The Carew Murder Case |
| “And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger” |
Narrator |
The Carew Murder Case |
| “She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy, but her manners were excellent.” |
Narrator |
The Carew Murder Case |
| “Much of his past was unearthed [...] tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career” |
Narrator |
Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon |
| “But here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer’s emotion had broken loose.” |
Narrator |
The Last Night |
| “Sir, if it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he cry out like a rat, and run from me?” |
Poole |
The Last Night |
| “that thing was not my master [...] No, sir, that thing in the mask was never Doctor Jekyll – God knows what it was, but it was never Doctor Jekyll” |
Poole |
The Last Night |
| “He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness” |
Narrator |
The Last Night |
| “I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but two” |
Jekyll |
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case |
| “I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both” |
Jekyll |
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case |
| “Severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature” |
Jekyll |
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case |
| “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; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.” |
Jekyll |
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case |
| “Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other” |
Jekyll |
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case |
