Quotes

• Spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death
• Mankind was my business
• I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it to the whole year. I will live in the past, present and future.
• If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
• The boy is ignorance. The girl is want.
• What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You‘re rich enough!
• Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good … and I say god bless it
• Man of the worldly mind
• Secret and self contained and solitary as an oyster
• Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say… my dear Scrooge how are you?
• Come! Dine with us to-morrow
• External heat and cold had little influence on him
• I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?
• To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends
• Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that homes like heaven
• Shrouded in a deep black garment
• They are man’s… beware them both
• Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?
• What is that upon your cheek?
• God bless us, every one!
• I wear the chains I forged in life
• Dismal little cell
• I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast
• He tried to warm himself at the candle
• A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
• I am as light as a feather
• Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man
• I am as happy as an angel
• Another idol has displaced me, a golden one
• May I sponge away the writing on this stone
• I will live in the past, present and future
• I hope to live to be another man from what I was
• Tell me, will he die?