Quotes from Jekyll and Hyde

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Jekyll and Hyde, and i hope they will influence and possibly be shown within my work.

• “If he be Mr. Hyde” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

• “It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”

• “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

• “With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”

• “You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

• “I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.”

• “There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

• “I learned to recognize 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.”

• “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.”

• “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

• “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.”

• “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.”