Summary Quick list of key character and theme quotes for Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde key character quotes

Jekyll:
 “well known and highly considered”
 “transcendental science”
 “I am the chief of sinners; I am the chief of sufferers also”
 “like some disconsolate prisoner”
 “…primitive duality of men…I was radically both”
 “tempted me until I fell into slavery”
 “it was Hyde after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty”
 “my pleasures were undignified”
 “the lower elements in my soul” [-Jekyll about Hyde]
 “strip off these lending’s”
 “incongruous compound” [-impure]
 “shook the very fortress of identity”
 “reputation sat under a shelter”
 “sold a slave to my original evil”
 “tempted me until I fell into slavery”

Hyde:
 “pure evil”
 “he gives a strong feeling of deformity”
 “damned juggernaut”
 “pale and dwarfish”
 “ape-like fury”
 “Hyde had an ape like spirit”
 “the dark influence of Hyde”
 “a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”
 “a man who was without bowels of mercy”
 “has every act and thought centred on self”
 “hissing intake…snarled”

Utterson:
 “lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable”
 “he had an approved tolerance for others”
 “a lover of the sane and the customary sides of life”
 “a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile”
 “I shall consider it my duty to break in that door”
 “austere with himself”

Lanyon:
 “healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
 “I felt bound to do as he requested.” [loyal]
 “welcomed him with both hands” [friendly]
 “he had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”
 “moral turpitude” [-Lanyon -> Jekyll]
o turpitude – wickedness