A Christmas Carol Quotes

• “Hard and sharp as flint”
• “Solitary as an oyster”
• "He carried his own low temperature around with him”
• “Nobody stopped him in the street to say. ‘My dear Scrooge, how are you?’ ”
• “Bah! Humbug”
• “Every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips... should be buried with a stake of holly through his heart”
• “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
• “If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
• “It’s not my business”
• “I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
• I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo!”
• “I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby.”
• “I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit!”
• “Not a farthing less. A great many back payments are included in it.”
• “I have come to dinner. Will you let me in Fred?”
• “Therefore I am about to raise your salary!”
• “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew.”
• What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.
• What's Christmas-time to you but a time for paying bills without money ... for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer.
• Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good
• Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses?
• I cannot afford to make idle people merry.
• Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
• Another idol has displaced me.
• I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.
• A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!