Key Quotations Flashcards

All 30 cards in this deck

Who says “I incline to Cain’s heresy”?

Utterson (Chapter 1).

Complete Enfield’s description of Hyde: “It wasn’t like a man; it was like …”

“… some damned Juggernaut.” (Chapter 1)

Whom does Enfield describe as “really like Satan”?

Hyde, after trampling the girl (Chapter 1).

Who does Enfield call “the very pink of the proprieties”?

The man who signed the cheque: Jekyll (Chapter 1).

Who says of Hyde, “He must be deformed somewhere”?

Enfield (Chapter 1).

Complete the quotation: “If he be Mr. Hyde, …”

“… I shall be Mr. Seek.” Utterson (Chapter 2).

Complete the quotation: “God bless me, the man seems …”

“… hardly human!” Utterson on Hyde (Chapter 2).

Complete the quotation: “if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, …”

“… it is on that of your new friend.” Utterson (Chapter 2).

Who says “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde”?

Jekyll, to Utterson (Chapter 3).

Whom does Jekyll call “that hide-bound pedant”?

Lanyon (Chapter 3).

Complete the quotation about Hyde attacking Carew: “And next moment, with …”

“… ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot” (Chapter 4).

Complete the fog description: “A great chocolate-coloured pall …”

“… lowered over heaven” (Chapter 4).

What does Soho seem like to Utterson in the fog?

“like a district of some city in a nightmare” (Chapter 4).

Who says “I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”?

Jekyll (Chapter 5).

Complete Utterson’s thought: “Henry Jekyll forge for …”

“… a murderer!” (Chapter 5).

Complete Jekyll’s letter: “If I am the chief of sinners, …”

“… I am the chief of sufferers also.” (Chapter 6).

Whom does Lanyon describe as “one whom I regard as dead”?

Jekyll (Chapter 6).

Whose face had “his death-warrant written legibly upon” it?

Lanyon’s (Chapter 6).

Who says “God forgive us, God forgive us”?

Utterson, after seeing Jekyll at the window (Chapter 7).

Who describes the voice in the cabinet as “Weeping like a woman or a lost soul”?

Poole (Chapter 8).

What does Poole call the figure he saw among the crates?

“that masked thing like a monkey” (Chapter 8).

Complete Hyde’s words to Lanyon: “your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy …”

“… to stagger the unbelief of Satan.” (Chapter 9).

Complete the quotation: “there before my eyes … there stood …”

“… Henry Jekyll!” Lanyon (Chapter 9).

Complete the quotation: “man is not truly one, …”

“… but truly two.” Jekyll (Chapter 10).

What does Jekyll say on first seeing Hyde in the mirror?

“This, too, was myself.” (Chapter 10).

Complete the quotation: “My devil had been long caged, …”

“… he came out roaring.” Jekyll (Chapter 10).

Complete Jekyll’s account of the murder: “I mauled the unresisting body, …”

“… tasting delight from every blow” (Chapter 10).

Complete the quotation: “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; …”

“… Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.” (Chapter 10).

Complete the quotation: “He, I say—I cannot say, I. …”

“… That child of Hell had nothing human” (Chapter 10).

What are the last words of the novel?

“I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”