The Poor Key Quotes

• Marley: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business"
• "Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons"
• "There was never such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there was ever such a goose cooked. its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family"
• "Mrs Cratchit entered - flushed, but smiling proudly - with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball"
• "I see a vacant seat", replied the Ghost, "in the poor-chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die"
• Ignorance and Want: "They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish"
• Ignorance and Want: "They are man's"
• The Beetling Shop: "Alleyways and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged of their offenses of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets"
• The Beetling Shop: "Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did"
• The Beetling Shop: "You don't mean to say you took them down, rings and all, with him lying there?"
• "Not the little prize turkey: the big one"
• "I am about to raise your salary"
• "Scrooge whispered in his ear. "Lord bless me!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away"