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"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Quotes
A respected scientist creates a potion that transforms him into his violent, evil alter ego, revealing the duality of human nature.
Quotes
I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth.
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.
This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop.
There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.
He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man.
I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll, whom I regard as dead.
I cannot tell you. And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with your old friend, you are idle.
You know the doctor's ways, sir, and how he shuts himself up.
I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
