Quotes

• Narrator: ‘a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’ Stave 1
• Jacob Marley: ’It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!“’ Stave 1
• Scrooge: “I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That's all.” Stave 2
• Scrooge (about Tiny Tim): “No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.” Stave 3
• Scrooge: "Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me. I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.
• Narrator: ‘No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him’. Stave 1 
• Ghost of Christmas Past: "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.’ Stave 2
• Scrooge (Re Fezziwig): ‘The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” Stave 2 
• Scrooge: ‘Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.’ Stave 3
• Scrooge: "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me…Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” Stave 4 
• Jacob Marley: ‘"It is required of every man…that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men…and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.’ Stave 1 
• Scrooge: There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all.” Stave 2
• Narrator: …when he thought that such another creature…might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.’ Stave 2
• Scrooge: "Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.’ Stave 3
• Narrator: Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more…He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew…’ Stave 5