25 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes From the Classic Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Published June 27, 2023
Fans of classic literature will enjoy these Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886.
The book has been an important influence on horror writings that have followed.
The popularity of the novel led to over 120 film and stage adaptations.
The book has continued to be a part of today’s culture, with people still using the phrase “Jekyll and Hyde personality” when referring to someone that quickly changes their personality.
The book’s plot follows a London-based practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson as he investigates the strange connection between the reputable Dr. Jekyll and the sinister Mr. Edward Hyde.
Read these Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes to learn more about the classic story.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes From and About Dr. Jekyll
Here are some Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes from and about the character Dr. Jekyll.
1. “Like some disconsolate prisoner.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
2. “He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
3. “I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
5. “Smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of slyish cast perhaps.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
6. “The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
7. “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.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
8. “I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
9. “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.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes From and About Mr. Hyde
Read these Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes from and about the character Mr. Hyde.
11. “’ If he be Mr. Hyde,’ he had thought, ‘I shall be Mr. Seek.’” — Robert Louis Stevenson
12. “Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” — Robert Louis Stevenson
13. “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
14. “To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
15. “It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
16. “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
17. “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.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
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More Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Quotes
This is the final batch of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quotes to enjoy.
18. “It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. — Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
20. “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
21. “His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time; they implied no aptness in the object.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
22. “The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “Some day…after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
24. “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…” — Robert Louis Stevenson
25. “Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
What Happens in the Story?
Over the next few years, Mr. Hyde commits a murder and maybe more, and although he is linked to Dr. Jekyll, nobody can figure out how.
Eventually, after Dr. Jekyll locks himself in his laboratory and commits suicide, a letter is read explaining that Mr. Hyde is who Jekyll turns into to unleash his vices.
He knew he was losing control, so he killed himself.
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