Quote Bank

• STAVE 1: 'Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire' - Narrator (Scrooge)
• STAVE 1: 'If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population' -Scrooge
• STAVE 1: 'Humbug! But stopped at the first syllable' - Narrator (when Scrooge goes to dismiss Marley but stops)
• STAVE 2: 'Another idol has displaced me; a golden one' - Belle
• STAVE 2: 'I should have liked to give him something: that's all' - Scrooge (talking about young boy carol singer)
• STAVE 3: 'Have they no refuge or resource' - Scrooge (about Ignorance and Want)
• STAVE 3: 'Say he will be spared' - Scrooge (about Tiny Tim)
• STAVE 4: 'Spirit! Hear me! I am not the man I was' - Scrooge
• STAVE 5: "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy" - Scrooge
• STAVE 5: 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year' - Scrooge
• STAVE 1: 'I wear the chain I forged in life' -Marley
• STAVE 1: 'I wish to be left alone' - Scrooge (to charity collectors)
• STAVE 1: 'I wear the chain I forged in life' - Marley
• STAVE 1: 'What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough' - Scrooge (to Fred)
• STAVE 2: 'There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye' - Narrator
• STAVE 2: "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still' - Narrator
• STAVE 3: 'Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child and wished to keep him by his side' - Narrator
• STAVE 3: 'They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed... But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another' - Narrator
• STAVE 1: 'Are they no prisons?... And the union workhouses?" - Scrooge
• STAVE 3: 'To any kindly given, to a poor one most" - Fred (abt Christmas spirit)
• STAVE 3: 'They are mans... This boy is ignorance. The girl is want' - Ghost of Christmas Present
• STAVE 4: 'He fightened everyone away from him when he was alive to profit us when he was dead!' - Charwoman who steals Scrooges stuff
• STAVE 4:" Are these the shadows of things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be only" - Scrooge
• STAVE 5: "I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's he shan't know who sends it" - Scrooge
• STAVE 5: "I am about to raise your salary" - Scrooge
• 'It wore a tunic of the purest white and from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light' (abt Ghost of Christmas Present)
• 'Come in! And know me better man!' - Christmas Present
• 'there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see' - abt Ghost of Christmas Present
• 'shrouded in a deep black garment' - abt Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• 'seemed to scatter gloom and mystery' abt Ghost of Christmas Yet to come
• 'neglected grave' abt Scrooge
• 'Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy place'
• 'irresistably contagious as laughter and good humour' (abt Fred laughing when Scrooge sees him in present)
• 'Let him in! It's a mercy he didn't shake his arm off!' (Fred when Scrooge comes to dinner)
• 'A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!' abt Scrooge
• 'It wore a tunic of the purest white and from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light' Abt GOC past