The Rich Key Quotes

• "the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal"
• Marley: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business"
• "a positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves"
• Scrooge about Fezziwig: "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy"
• "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"
• "a great fat man with a monstrous chin"
• Rich man about Scrooge's funeral: "I don't mind going if a lunch is provided"
• Scrooge: "not the little prize turkey: the big one"
• Scrooge: "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"