Quotes

• Ebenezer Scrooge: '"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"'
• Ebenezer Scrooge: '"Hard and sharp as flint"'
• Jacob Marley's ghost: '"I wear the chain I forged in life"'
• Ghost of Christmas Past: '"each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long long forgotten"'
• Fred (Scrooge's nephew): '"His wealth is of no use to him, he dont do any good with it"'
• Ghost of Christmas Present: '"Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce"'
• Ebenezer Scrooge: 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.'