quotes

• “As solitary as an oyster.” - about scrooge
• “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.” 
• “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” 
• “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” 
• Marley’s Ghost: “Mankind was my business.” 
• Marley’s Ghost: “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”   
• Scrooge about Mr Fezziwig: “The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.” 
• Belle to Scrooge: “Another idol has displaced me.”  
• Belle about Scrooge: “I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.” 
• Belle’s husband to Belle about Scrooge: “Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”  
• About the Ghost of Christmas Present: “Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch.” 
• About the Cratchit’s goose: “a feathered phenomenon.”
• “There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t believe there ever was such a goose cooked.” 
• About Tiny Tim: “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
• Bob Cratchit: “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast.”
•  “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.”  
• Scrooge says to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.” 
• Two Business Colleagues: “It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” said the same speaker; for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.”  
• Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own."
• Bob Cratchit about Tiny Tim’s grave: “I wish you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is.” 
• About Scrooge’s grave: “overrun by grass and weeds.”
• Scrooge on what he has learnt: “I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” 
• Scrooge: “The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.” 
• Scrooge: “I am as light as a feather, I am a happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
• “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.”
• “He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the Knowledge.”
• " I can't afford to make idle people merry." - scrooge
• “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” - scrooge
• “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.” - scrooge to fred
• "decrease the surplus population." - scrooge
• "I wear the chain I forged in life" - marley
• "Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be."
• "I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now" - scrooge when talking to fezziwig
• Tiny Tim is as "good as gold"
• "Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.
• "I hope to live to be a better man from what I was." - scrooge
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and keep it all the year." - scrooge
• “And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"
• "He was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled" - about fred
• "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." - scrooge