Quotes

• “A tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
• “Solitary as an oyster”
• “There’s more of gravy than of grave about you” - Scrooge
• “I wear the chains I forged in life” - Jacob Marley
• “Incessant torture of remorse” - Jacob Marley
• “Come in! and know me better, man“ - Ghost of Christmas Present
• “Brave in ribbons” - describing Mrs Crachit
• “I see a vacant seat“ - Ghost of Christmas Present
• “Would you so soon put out , with worldly hands, the light I give?” - Ghost of Christmas Past
• “It wore a tunic of the purest white” - describing the Ghost of Christmas Past
• “From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light” - describing the Ghost of Christmas Past
• “Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
• “They are Man’s” - Ghost of Christmas Present
• “Most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is doom”
• “A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time” - Fred
• “If they would rather die […] they had better do it and decrease the surplus population” - Scrooge
• “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it”
• “A solitary child, neglected by his friends” - Ghost of Christmas Past
• “Another idol has displaced me” - Belle
• “Are there no prisons? […] Are there no workhouses?” - Ghost of Christmas Present
• “The phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached”
• “Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!”
• “I will not shut out the lessons they teach me” - Scrooge
• “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel” - Scrooge
• “His own heart laughed”