Jekyll Quotes

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Father, Son, Hyde

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Men, Two, Fields

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

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• I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Devil, Way

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Discovery, Two

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

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• I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Elements, Beloved, Separation

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Halloween, Eye, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.327, e-artnow

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Signatures, Faces, New Friends

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Classic Unabridged Edition): Psychological thriller by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.11, e-artnow

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• Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Unhappy, Confession, Ends

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Giving, Wish

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Respect, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spiritual, Memories, Animal

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest challenge in life is for the two hearts to live in peaceful co-existence

  Hyde

  Heart, Two, Challenges

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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Faith, Encouragement

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Men, Trying, Digging

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• In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wisdom, Art, Knowledge

  Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Stones, Hills, Starting

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.10, Bibliolis Books

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• 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

  May

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• It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hair, Faces, Saws

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.64, Broadview Press

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Evil, Humans, Human Beings

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• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Seeds

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• He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strong, Memories, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Lulu.com

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