Jekyll Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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