Quotes

• "tight fisted" "calloused old man" - dickens
• "there was a greedy, restless motion in his eye" - dickens
• "another idol has displaced me" - belle
• "i have seen your nobeler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion gain engrosses you" - belle
• "may you be happy in the life you have chosen" - belle
• "turkey... twice the size of tiny tim" - scrooge
• "he shant know who sent it" - scrooge
• "he became known for being as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew" - dickens
• "are there no prisons?" - scrooge
• "and the union workhouses... are they still in operation?" - scrooge
• "i cant afford to make idle people merry" - scrooge
• tiny tim uses a "crutch and an iron frame"
• "if these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die" - ghost of christmas present
• "no... say he will be spared" - scrooge
• "a great many back-payments are included." - scrooge
• "to tiny tim... he was a second father and a good man" - dickens
• he pays cratchit 15 shillings (low salary)
• "its not convenient and not fair" - scrooge
• "its not an excuse for picking a mans pockets" - scrooge
• "odious, stingy, hard (and) unfeeling." - mrs cratchit
• "scrooge was the ogre of the family... the mention of his name cast a dark shadow" - dickens
• "ill raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family." - scrooge
• "dismal little cell" - dickens
• "the clerks fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal" - dickens
• "business!... mankind was my business; charity, merry, forebearence were all my business." - marley
• "no more work tonight. christmas eve, dick. christmas, ebenezer!" - fezziwig
• "fuel was heaped upon the fire... the room was snug, and warm, and dry, and bright" - dickens (about fezziwig)
• "the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune... i should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now" - scrooge
• "i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - scrooge
• "make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle before you do another i, bob cratchit!" - scrooge
• scrooge is as "solitary as an oyster" - dickens
• "i have always thought of christmastime... as a good time; a kid, forgiving, charitable, pleasent time... men and women... opem their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passangers to the grace, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys" - fred
• "bah! humbug!" - scrooge
• "what's christmastime to you but a time for paying bills without money, a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer." - scrooge
• younge scooge was "a solitary child, neglected by his friends... a lonely boy... his poor forgotten self" - dickens
• "he has the power to render us happy or unhappy... the happiess he gives is quite as good as if it cost a fortune" - scrooge
• "god bless us, everyone!" - tiny tim
• "but they were happy, gratedul, pleased with one another, and contented with the time." - dickens (about cratchits)
• "i am as light as a feather... as merry as a schoolboy" - scrooge
• "im quite a baby" - scrooge