a christmas carol

• SCROOGE : " every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart"
• SCROOGE : "i cant afford to make idle people merry"
• 'a solitary child, neglected by his friends'
• 'solitary as an oyster'
• SCROOGE : "tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone!"
• BELLE: "another idol has displaced me, a golden one"
• SCROOGE : "i hope to live to be another man from what i was"
• 'external heat and cold had little influence on scrooge'
• PRESENT: 'a jolly giant'
• PRESENT: 'cheery voice'
• PRESENT : "they are mans. [referring to ignorance and want] beware them both"
• PAST : "you are one of those whose passions made this cap"
• PAST: 'scrooge [..] found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor'
• PAST : "your lip is trembling, and what is that upon your cheek?"
• PAST: 'the figure itself fluctuated in it's distinctness'
• PAST : 'the grasp, though gentle as a womans hand, was not to be resisted'
• MARLEY: "i wear the chain i forged in life"
• MARLEY : "i cannot rest, i cannot stay, i cannot linger anywhere"
• MARLEY: 'at this the spirit raised a frightful cry'
• MARLEY : "mankind should have been my business"
• MARLEY : "you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate"
• MARLEY: "hear me! my time is nearly gone"
• MARLEY : "not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one lifes opportunity misused"
• MARLEY : " no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse"
• FRED: 'his face was ruddy and handsome ; his eyes sparkled'
• FRED: "merry Christmas uncle! god save you!"
• FRED: "i want nothing from you; i ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends"
• FRED: "what reason have you to be morose. you're rich enough!"
• FRED : "I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not"
• FRED : "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"
• YET TO COME : 'the spirit neither spoke nor moved'
• YET TO COME : 'it seemed to scatter gloom and misery'
• YET TO COME : 'the finger pointed from the grave, to him and back again'
• MRS CRATCHIT: " I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it.”
• SCROOGE :“If they would rather die,they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
• SCROOGE : 'Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!'