Key Quotes

• a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, old sinner!
• solitary as an oyster
• 'darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it'
• "I wear the chain I forged in life,"
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
• Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words said by the spirit’
• ‘They were not a handsome family…but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another
• ‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year
• Oh! But he was tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
• I should have liked to give him something that's all"
• Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind
• I can't afford to make idle people merry
• Hard and sharp as flint
• I should like to say a word or two to my clark just now
• If they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Old Marley was dead to begin with
• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail
• Such another creature might have called him father
• Remove me!... I cannot bear it!
• Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer
• Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words
• Uncle Scrooge imperceptibly became so gay and light of heart
• I fear you more than any spectre I have seen
• I am not the man I was
• I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year
• Are these the shadows of the things that will be or they the shadows that may be, only?

• Scrooge knew it. And he sobbed
• Are there no prisons?
• It is a ponderous chain! I made it link by link and yard by yard
• From the crown of his head there sprung a bright clear jet of light
• Another idol has displaced me
• Hilli-ho! Cried Fezziwig skipping down from the high desk
• Its dark brown curls were long and free
• sat a jolly giant
• an antique scabbard but no sword was in it
• 'As good as gold' said Bob 'And Better'
• God bless us every one
• This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both
• shrouded in a deep black garment
• The finger pointed from the grave to him and back again