Quotes

• 'He turned uncomfortably cold'
• 'A jolly giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike plenty's horn'
• 'Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before this spirit'
• 'Choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen'
• 'Bob has fifteen 'bob' a week himself'
• 'Dressed out but poorly in a twice turned gown, but brave in ribbons'
• 'To remember on Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see'
• 'A small pudding for a large family'
• 'No, no, Oh no, kind spirit! Say he will be spared'
• 'Scrooge hung his head and was overcome with penitence and grief'
• 'Like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night'
• 'They found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire'
• 'Thundering water, as it rolled and roared and raged among the dreadful caverns'
• 'But even here, two men who watched the light has made a fire'
• 'Every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought'
• 'It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engage, to hear a hearty laugh'
• 'there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as a laughter and good humour'
• 'I am sorry for him; I could'nt be angry with him is I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always'
• 'Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart'
• 'Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish'
• 'a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age had pinched and twisted them'
• 'Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing'
• 'They are Man's beware them both'
• 'Have they no refuge or resource?'
• 'Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?'