Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes

“To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“about as emotional as a bagpipe.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter...”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound togetherthat in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“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 was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together—that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How, then were they dissociated?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde[Illustrated]

“It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“He recollected his courage.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“قد ينجح المرء في كبح جماح فضوله،ولكن ذلك لايعني قهره والانتصار عليه”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, PEDE CLAUDO, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The door, indeed, stood open as before; but the windows were still shuttered, the chimneys breathed no stain into the bright air, there sounded abroad none of that low stir (perhaps audible rather to the ear of the spirit than to the ear of the flesh) by which a house announces and betrays its human lodgers.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change—he seemed to swell—his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter—and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror. "O”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find the courage to release himself at the last moment? God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde