Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes

“تحت السماء الواسعة المرصعة بالنجوم
احفر لي قبرا، ودعني أرقد.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde[Illustrated]

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“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. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde

“Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Me provoca gran aversión hacer preguntas: tienen mucho de la fatalidad del juicio final. Se pone en marcha una pregunta y es como si se empujara una piedra. Uno está sentado tranquilamente en lo alto de su monte, y allá va la piedra, arrastrando a otras en su movimiento, y a lo mejor, un pobre infeliz, el que uno menos podía imaginar, recibe el golpe en la cabeza, en su propio jardín, y su familia tiene que cambiar de apellido. No, señor; para mí ya es una regla: cuanto más extraño parece un asunto, menos preguntas.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Both sides of me were in dead earnest.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless. The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost. Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.' In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Hyde?" repeated Lanyon.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Sin embargo, una cosa es mortificar la propia curiosidad y otra es vencerla”
― Robert Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The

“It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer's way. His friends were those of his own blood, or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“That child of hell wasn't human. Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Illustrated Edition

“I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Illustrated Edition

“I thought it was madness," he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-colored pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapors; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the black end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“And this again, that 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, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde