Quotes

• “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
• “solitary as an oyster”
• “heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge”
• “ ‘Bah!’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’ ”
• “Are there no prisons… workhouses?”
• “If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
• “Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern”
• ‘”I made it link by link and yard by yard.’’
• “There’s more of gravy than of grave about you”
• “like a child, yet…like an old man” (Ghost of Christmas Past)
• “strong hand” “mildly” “gentle”
• 'bright as a ballroom’
• ‘Another idol has displaced me… a golden one’
• “a jolly Giant”
• “genial”,  “sparkling”, “cheery” (Ghost of Christmas Present)
• ‘brave in ribbons’
• ‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’ (Ignorance and Want)
• “it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery”
• “silent”, “ghostly”, “spectral” (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come)
• ‘Unwatched, unwept, uncared for’
• “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel!”
• ‘”Hallo! Whoop! Hallo!’”
• ‘’I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.’”
• “Scrooge was better than his word”
• “God bless Us, Every One!”
• "second father"
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future."
• "glowing with good intention"
• “they might be guilty governments.”
• "a tremendous family to provide for"