quotes

• Scrooge 


  'a poor excuse to pick a mans pocket every 25th of December'
• Scrooge 


  'solitary as an oyster'
• Scrooge 


  'What is Christmas-time to you but paying your bills with no money'
• Scrooge 


  'clerk who was cold... warmer then Scrooge'
• Scrooge 


  'should like to say a word or two to my clerk just now'
• Scrooge

  thin, blue lips
• Scrooge

  grating voice
• Scrooge

  as hard and sharp as flint
• Poor People

  'carrying their dinners to the barkers shop'
• Ignorance and want

  'wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable'
• Ignorance and want

  'yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish'
• Ignorance and want

  'monsters'
• Fred

  'I couldn't be angry if I tried'
• Fred

  'I think he lost a very good diner'
• Fred

  'hurts himself' (Scrooge hurts himslef)
• Ghost of christmas yet to come

  rich men 'its likely to be a very cheap funeral'
• Ghost of christmas yet to come

  scrooge 'bent down on one knee'
• Ghost of christmas yet to come

  doesn't speak - shows how scrooge has to make his own conclusions
• Ghost of christmas yet to come

  'behold a solemn phantom, draped and hooded'
• Ghost of christmas yet to come

  'coming like mist.... towards him'
• Ghost of christmas yet to come


  slowly, gravely, slightly appeared'
• Ghost of christmas present

  'Are there no prisons?... Are there no workhouses?'
• Ghost of christmas present

  ' die he better do it and decrease the surplus population'
• Ghost of christmas present

  Scrooge 'conduct me as you will... let me profit off it'
• Ghost of christmas present

  'green robe... boarded with white fur'
• Ghost of christmas present

  'brown curls were long and free'
• Ghost of christmas present

  'on its head... holly wreath'
• Ghost of christmas present

  'but no sword was in it and the ancient sheath was eaten up by rust'
• Ghost of Jacob Marley

  like a tail... cashbox, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds'
• Ghost of Jacob Marley

  ' Marley was dead; to begin with'
• Ghost of Jacob Marley

  'Old marley was as dead as a doornail'
• Ghost of Jacob Marley

  'death cold eyes'
• Ghost of Jacob Marley

  'Marley's face. Marley's face'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  'a small matter... silly folks so full of gratitude'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  'he has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  'solitary child, neglected by his friends'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  scrooge - 'why do you delight to torture me?'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  'like a child, yet not like a child, like an old man'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  it arms were very long and muscular'
• Ghost of Christmas Past

  'tunic of purest white'