Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Holmes Herbert: Dr. Lanyon
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Quotes
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Dr. Lanyon : Perhaps you're forgetting, you're engaged to Muriel.
Dr. Jekyll : Forgotten it? Can a man dying of thirst forget water? And do you know what would happen to that thirst if it were to be denied water?
Dr. Lanyon : If I understand you correctly, you sound almost indecent.
Dr. Jekyll : What names you give things!
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Dr. Lanyon : You're a rebel, and see what it has done for you. You're in the power of this monster that you have created.
Dr. Jekyll : I'll never take that drug again!
Dr. Lanyon : Yes, but you told me you became that monster tonight not of your own accord. It will happen again.
Dr. Jekyll : It never will. I'm sure of it. I'll conquer it!
Dr. Lanyon : Too late. You cannot conquer it. It has conquered you!
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Dr. Lanyon : I'm afraid you offended the General.
Dr. Jekyll : Offended him! It's a pity I didn't strangle the old walrus!
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Dr. Lanyon : Well, I hope the responsibilities of marriage will sober you up.
Dr. Jekyll : I'm not marrying to be sober. I'm marrying to be drunk! Drunk with love and life and experiments.
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Dr. Jekyll : You have no interests in science at all! You have no dreams, no curiosity.
Dr. Lanyon : There are bounds beyond which one should not go.
Dr. Jekyll : Yes, it isn't done, I suppose. I tell you there are no bounds, Lanyon.
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Dr. Jekyll : That's not a matter of conduct; but, elementary instinct.
Dr. Lanyon : You ought to control those instincts.
Dr. Jekyll : Are you pretending that either can or do? We may control our actions; but, not our impulses.
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Dr. Jekyll : Why aren't you frank enough to admit that other - that indecent self in you? No! You prefer to hide it, pretend it isn't there.
Dr. Lanyon : We have to accept certain things...
Dr. Jekyll : I don't want to accept them! I want to be clean - not only in my conduct; but, in my inner most thoughts and desires.
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[last lines]
Dr. Lanyon : Drop that knife!
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Dr. Lanyon : I'm not interested in your shortcuts and byways.
Dr. Jekyll : But, it's in the byways that the secrets and wonders lie! In science and in life.
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Dr. Lanyon : You've committed the supreme blasphemy. I warned you. I told you that no man could violate the traditions of his kind and not be damned!
Dr. Jekyll : That I still do not believe.
