A Christmas Carol Quotations

• Hard and sharp as flint
• Solitary as an oyster
• Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
• If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on his lips should be buried with a stake of holly through his heart
• I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man
• 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
• Therefore I am about to raise your salary!
• I have come to dinner. Will you let me in Fred?
• I wear the chains I forged in life
• Mankind was my business
• My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole
• There was never such a goose cooked
• God bless us everyone
• Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot, Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour, Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce
• Another idol has displaced me… a golden one
• May you be happy in the life you have chosen
• No more! Show me no more!
• What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough
• I have always thought of Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time
• I have come to bring you home dear brother… home, home, home!
• Bless his heart; it’s Fezziwig alive again!
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends
• A jolly giant who bore a glowing torch with a cheery voice and a joyful air
• I see a vacant seat. The child will die
• This boy is ignorance. This girl is want
• It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head, its face, and left nothing visible except one outstretched hand
• Scrooge crept towards it, trembling, and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scooge
• Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone!