A Christmas Carol Quotes Stave One

    Cards (100)

    • "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone."
    • "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"
    • "Hard and sharp as flint."
    • "Solitary as an oyster."
    • "The cold within him froze his old features."
    • "Marley was dead to begin with."
    • "Old Marley was dead as a door-nail."
    • "Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner."
    • "He was an excellent man of business."
    • "But what did Scrooge care! It was the very thing he liked."
    • "Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance."
    • "Cold, bleak, biting weather."
    • "It was quite dark already, It had not been light all day."
    • "The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole."
    • "To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything."
    • "Who in a dismal little cell beyond."
    • "A sort of tank."
    • "He was all in a glow."
    • "His face was ruddy and handsome."
    • "His eyes sparkled."
    • "Nipped his pointed nose."
    • "Shrivelled his cheek."
    • "Stiffened his gait."
    • "Made his eyes red."
    • "His thin lips blue."
    • "Spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice."
    • "A frosty rime was on his head."
    • "On his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him."
    • "External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge."
    • "What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
    • “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”
    • “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."
    • "As a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time."
    • "Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
    • "The clerk in the tank."
    • “I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
    • "Who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge."
    • “He died seven years ago, this very night.”
    • “Are there no prisons?”
    • “And the Union workhouses?”