Best quotes from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.

The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. “I do not care to hear more,” said he. “This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop.

A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim: but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope, which he had been probably carrying to the post, and which bore the name and address of Mr. Utterson.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange — a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde.

Someday, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

My poor Utterson, said he, you are unfortunate in such a client. 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.

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...