Quotes

• “Oh! But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
• “Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner”
• “Hard and sharp as flint”
• “secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster“
• “I wear the chain I forged in life”
• “I made link by link and yard by yard“
• “ I girded it on of my own free will and my own free will I wore it”
• “the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
• “Alibaba! … at the gate of Damascus … Robinson Crusoe”
• “father is so much kinder than he used to be that home’s like heaven”
• ‘ ”if they would rather die“ said Scrooge “then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population” ‘
• ”surplus population”
• “Spirit” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
• “ my clerk with 15 shillings a week and a wife and family talking about Merry Christmas”
• “ this boy is ignorance. This girl is want beware.”
• “ But most of all beware of this boy for on his brow I see that written which is doom unless the writing is erased”
• “ he did it all and indefinitely more and to tiny Tim who did not die he was a second father”
• “ I will raise your salary and endeavour to help your struggling family”
• “ but he let them laugh. His own heart laughed and that was quite enough for him.”
• “ I don’t make Merry at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
• ‘ ”are there no prisons?” said the spirit turning on him for the last time with his own words “are there no workhouses?” ‘
• “ Mankind was my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop in the ocean of my business.”
• “ another idol has displaced me … a golden one “
• “ Tunic of the purest white”
• “ it held a fresh green holly in its hand”
• “ in singular contradiction with that wintry emblem, has its dress trimmed with summer flowers”
• “ Yet not so like a child as like an old man”
• “ fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence and gave a freer passage of tears”
• “ simple green robe”
• “ breast was bare ”
• “ a holly wreath“
• " Glowing with good intention"
• “ jolly giant”
• “ Its sparkling eye”
• “Long and free”
• “Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch ”
• “The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him Scrooge bent down upon his knee”
• “ Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him”
• “ Shrouded in a deep black garment ”
• “ read upon the neglected grave his own name”