Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: Key Quotes

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‘cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.’
Mr Utterson - Chapter 1 'Story of the Door'
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‘for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.’
Enfield - Chapter 1 'Story of the Door'
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‘It was like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.’
Enfield - Chapter 1 'Story of the Door'
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‘If he be Mr Hyde,’ he had thought, ‘I shall be Mr Seek.’
Mr Utterson - Chapter 2 'Search for Mr Hyde'
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‘Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile.’
Mr Utterson - Chapter 2 'Search for Mr Hyde'
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‘God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?’ Or could it be the old story of Dr Fell?’
Mr Utterson - Chapter 2 'Search for Mr Hyde'
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"The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde."
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 3 'Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease'
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‘this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep.’
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 3 'Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease'
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‘And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot.’
Narrator - Chapter 4 'The Carew Murder Case'
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‘the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street…and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part.’
Narrator - Chapter 4 'The Carew Murder Case'
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‘Mr Hyde had only used a couple of rooms; but these were furnished with luxury and good taste.’
Narrator - Chapter 4 'The Carew Murder Case'
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‘sat Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sick. He did not rise to meet is visitor, but held out a cold hand, and bade him welcome in a changed voice.’
Narrator - Chapter 5 'Incident of the Letter'
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‘Utterson I swear to God,’ cried the doctor, ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.’
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 5 'Incident of the Letter'
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‘Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.’
Dr Lanyon - Chapter 6 'Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon'
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‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.’
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 6 'Remarkable Incident of Dr Jekyll'
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‘A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.’
Mr Utterson - Chapter 8 'The Last Night'
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‘O God!’ I screamed, and ‘O God!’ again and again; for there before my eyes – pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll!’
Dr Lanyon - Chapter 9 'Dr Lanyon's Narrative'
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‘It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; 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
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10 'Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case'
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‘My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring.’
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10 'Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case'
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‘this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural, like a return to the old days before I had made discovery.’
Dr Jekyll - Chapter 10 ' Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case'
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