Quotes

• "Scrooge was the sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner."
• "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
• "hard and sharp as flint"
• "Solitary as an oyster"
• "A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him."
• "Bah! Humbug!"
• "decrease the surplus population"
• "Speak comfort to me Jacob." "I have none to give."
• "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
• "I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it."
• "Tell me if Tiny Tim will live."
• "begged like a boy to stay."
• "It's likely to be a very cheap funeral. for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it."
• "a wicked old screw"
• "I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own."
• "Honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons they teach. "
• "It was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!"
• "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more."