Mr. Utterson Quotes

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

“This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”

“Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.”

“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”

“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.”