A Christmas Carol

• If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Mankind was my business [...] the dealings of my trade were but a drop in the comprehensive ocean of my business
• Oh but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
• Another idol had displaced me [...] a golden one
• From the crown of its head there sprung a bright jet of clear light
• He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome [...] the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
• Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quotes by the spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief
• Then all the Cratchit family drew around the hearth in what Bob Cratchit called a circle
• Ragged, scowling, wolfish [...] a stale and shivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, twisted them and oulled them into shreds. Where angels might had sat, devils lurked and glared out menacing
• Are these the shadows of things that Will be, or are they the shadows of the things that May be only?
• The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached [...] it was shrouded in a deep black garment which [...] left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand [...] its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread
• I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year. I will live in the Past, Present and future [...] I will not shut out the lessons they teach!
• He was so fluttered and glowing with good intentions
• I am happy as an angel, merry as a schoolboy
• This boy is ignorance. This girl is want beware them both [...] but most of all beware the boy for on his brow is see which is written doom, unless the writing be erased
• Secret and self contained and solitary as an oyster
• Solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still
• "Fog and darkness" "misanthropic ice"