A Christmas Carol quotes

• “Every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly though his heart” -scrooge
• “Bah Humbug!” -scrooge
• “Are there no prisons? -scrooge
• “God bless us every one!” -TinyTim
• “Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail -narrator
• “Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner -narrator
• “even scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event” -narrator
• “But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone” -Narrator
• “Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! -narrator
• “Solitary as an oyster” -narrator
• “External heat and cold had little influence on scrooge.” -narrator
• “Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him.” -narrator
• The treadmill and the Poor law are in full vigour, then? -scrooge
• Why did his cold eye glisten? -scrooges eye
• Why it’s old fezziwig! Bless his heart; it’s Fezziwig alive again! -scrooge
• “spirit!” said scrooge in a broken voice, “remove me from this place”
• “remove me!” scrooge exclaimed, “i cannot bear it!”
• “leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!” -scrooge
• scrooge entered timidly -second ghost
• “A merry christmas, uncle! God save you!” -first thing Fred says in the book
• “good afternoon” -scrooge repeats
• His nephew left the room without an angry word -stave 1
• “Mr Marley has need dead for seven years” -scrooge
• “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”
• “if they would rather die,” said scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
• Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened -pathetic fallacy matches scrooges personality
• The cold became intense -pathetic fallacy matches scrooges personality
• “you don’t think me ill-used, when i pay a day’s wages for no work” -scrooge
• “i made it link by link, and yard by yard” -marleys ghost
• “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” -scrooge
• “I suffer most. Why did i walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down” -marley
• “figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness” -description of first ghost
• “I am a mortal,” Scrooge remonstrated, “and liable to fall.”
• “Bear but a touch of my hand there,” said the spirit, lay it upon his heart, “and you shall be upheld in more than this!” -first ghost
• “your lip is trembling,” said the ghost. “And what is that upon your cheek?”-scrooge is tearing up
• “The school is not quite deserted,” said the ghost. “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
• “no more work to-night” -fezziwig is different to scrooge
•  (skipping down from the high streets) -fezziwig is joyful
• (a positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig’s calves)
• “A small matter,” said the ghost, “to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.”