English Literature - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Mr. Hyde - Quotes

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Chapter 1 -Story of the Door -Card 1

  • "a little man"- Mr Enfield
  • "stumping along" - Mr Enfield
  • "the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground" - Mr Enfield
  • "it was hellish to see" - Mr Enfield
  • "It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut." - Mr Enfield
  • "perfectly cool" - Mr Enfield (speaking of Mr Hyde's manner after trampling the girl)
  • "gave me a look so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running" - Mr Enfield
  • "I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight" - Mr Enfield
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Chapter 1 -Story of the Door -Card 2

  • "every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with a desire to kill him" - Mr Enfield (speaking of the Doctor's repulsion toward Hyde)
  • "black sneering coolness" - Mr Enfield
  • "like Satan" - Mr Enfield
  • "a really damnable man" - Mr Enfield
  • "something wrong with his apperance, something displeasing, something downright detestable." - Mr Enfield
  • "I never saw a man I so disliked" - Mr Enfield
  • "he gives a strong feeling of deformity" - Mr Enfield
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Chapter 2 -Search for Mr. Hyde -Card 1

  • 'detestable atributes
  • 'a face which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred'
  • 'small'
  • 'the look of him, even at a distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination.'
  • 'Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath'
  • 'snarled aloud into a savage laugh'
  • 'pale and dwarfish'
  • 'impression of deformity'
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Chapter 2 -Search for Mr. Hyde -Card 2

  • 'displeasing smile'
  • 'murderous mixture of timidity and boldness'
  • 'spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice'
  • "hardly human" - Mr Utterson
  • "trogloditic" - Mr Utterson
  • "radiance of a foul soul" - Mr Utterson
  • "if ever i read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend" - Mr Utterson
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Chapter 2 -Search for Mr. Hyde -Card 3

Mr Utterson's meeting with Hyde causes many peculiar affects within him...

  • 'shudder in his blood' - Mr Hyde causes Mr Utterson to have a 'shudder in his blood', even in 'the pleasantest room in London' (Dr Jekyll's hall).
  • 'the face of Hyde sat heavy on his (Mr Utterson's) memory'
  • 'he felt (what was rare with him (Mr Utterson)) a nausea and distaste of life'
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Chapter 3 - Dr. Jekyll Was Quite At Ease

  • 'The large, handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.' - (Upon the mention of Mr. Hyde)
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Chapter 4 -The Carew Murder Case -Card 1

  • 'very small gentleman'
  • 'broke out in a great flame of anger'
  • 'stamping'
  • 'like a madman'
  • 'clubbed him (Sir Danvers Carew) to the earth'
  • 'apelike fury'
  • 'trampling his victim underfoot'
  • 'hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered'
  • 'incredibly mangled' - the state of Sir Danvers Care after his murder.
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Chapter 4 -The Carew Murder Case -Card 2

  • 'the stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and very heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty' - Mr Hyde had attacked Sir Danvers so viciously that even the strong, hard cane broke under the force. (insensate = completely lacking sense or reason)
  • 'Mr Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde' - (to quail = feel or show fear or apprehension)
  • "Particularly small and particularly wicked-looking" - Maid
  • 'haunting sense of unexpressed deformity'
  • 'fugitive'
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Chapter 6 -Incident of Dr. Lanyon

  • 'disreputable'
  • 'callous' - (callous = showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others)
  • 'violent'
  • 'vile life'
  • 'the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career'
  • 'evil influence'
  • 'dark influence'
  • 'an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below'
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Chapter 7 - Incident At the Window

  • 'an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentleman below' - (abject = (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree)
  • 'They were both pale, and there was an answering horror in their eyes.'
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Chapter 8 -The Last Night -Card 1

  • "him, or it, whatever it is" - Mr. Poole
  • "hair stood upon my head like quills" - Mr. Poole
  • "cry out like a rat" - Mr. Poole
  • "that thing" - Mr. Poole
  • "dwarf" - Mr. Poole
  • "the creature" - Mr. Poole
  • "something queer about that gentleman - something that gave a man a turn" - Mr. Poole
  • "you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin" - Mr. Poole
  • "like a monkey" - Mr. Poole
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Chapter 8 -The Last Night -Card 2

  • "it went down my spine like ice" - Mr. Poole
  • "Once, I heard it weeping" - Mr. Poole
  • 'sorely contorted'
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Chapter 9 -Dr. Lanyon's Narrative -Card 1

  • "a small man crouching" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "small" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "debility of constitution (in Mr. Hyde's face)" - Dr. Lanyon - (debility = physical weakness, especially as a result of illness)
  • "odd, subjective disturbance caused by his neighbourhood" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "incipient rigor ... accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse" - Dr. Lanyon - (incipient = developing) (rigor = a sudden feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in temperature, often with copious sweating)
  • "struck in me ... disgustful curiosity" - Dr. Lanyon
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Chapter 9 -Dr. Lanyon's Narrative -Card 2

  • "dressed in a fashion which would have made an ordinary person laughable ... this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter" - Dr. Lanyon - Despite his over-sized, ill-fitted clothing (much like that of a clown), Dr. Lanyon did not find Hyde's attire amusing because of his unsettling nature.
  • "there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me - something seizing, surprising and revolting" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "at his touch ... a certain icy pang along my blood" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "face was so ghastly" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "dreadful smile" - Dr. Lanyon
  • "I sat petrified" - Dr. Lanyon
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Chapter 9 -Dr. Lanyon's Narrative -Card 3

  • "stagger the unbelief of Satan" - Mr. Hyde - (He says that the possibilities that Dr.Jekyll has come upon would "stagger the unbelief of Satan".)
  • "creature" - Dr. Lanyon
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 1

  • "incredibly sweet" - Dr. Jekyll - (describing the feeling of being Hyde)
  • "I felt younger, lighter, happier in body" - Dr. Jekyll - ("  ")
  • "I knew myself ... to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked" - Dr. Jekyll - ("  ")
  • "and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine" - Dr. Jekyll - ("  ")
  • "I had lost in stature" - Dr. Jekyll - ("  ")
  • "The evil side of my nature" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll" - Dr. Jekyll
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 2

  • "Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one (Jekyll), evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other (Hyde)" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay." - Dr. Jekyll
  • "ugly idol" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "This too, was myself. It felt natural and human." - Dr. Jekyll
  • "visible misgiving of the flesh" - Dr. Jekyll - (Upon seeing hyde, people displayed a "visible misgiving of the flesh".) - (misgiving = a feeling of doubt or apprehension about the outcome or consequences of something)
  • "pure evil" - Dr. Jekyll
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 3

  • "my virtue slumbered" - Dr. Jekyll - (Hyde has diminished Jekyll's "virtue")
  • "my evil" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "wholly evil" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "stain" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "monstrous" - Dr. Jekyll - (describing the pleasures Mr. Hyde seeked to indulge)
  • "inherently malign and villainous" - Dr. Jekyll - (malign = evil in nature or effect.)
  • "like a man of stone" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil" - Dr. Jekyll - these are said to be the "leading characters of Edward Hyde" - (insensate = completely lacking sense or reason) (readiness = willingness to do something / being prepared to do something)
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 4

  • "My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "I was conscious, even when I took the draft, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill" - Dr. Jekyll - (unbridled = uncontrolled/unconstrained (comes from a horse's bridle, the headgear used to control the horse)) (propensity = an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way)
  • "the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "tasting delight from every blow" - Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde - (during Sir Danvers' murder)
  • "began to growl for license" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "hairy" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "I gnashed my teeth upon him (a driver) with a gust of devilish fury" - Mr. Hyde (the driver laughed at his ill-fitted clothes)
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 5

  • "so black a countenance as made the attendants (of the inn) tremble" - Mr. Hyde
  • "creature" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "gnawing his nails" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "That child of hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "brute" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "a fancy brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds, and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life." - Dr. Jekyll - (a fancy = an imagination)
  • "he (Dr. Jekyll) had now seen the full deformity of that creature" - Dr. Jekyll
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Chapter 10 -Henry Jekyll's Full Statement -Card 6

  • "my second and worse (self)" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "not only hellish but inorganic" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "apelike" - Dr. Jekyll
  • "sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him" - Dr. Jekyll
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