Scrooge

• solitary as an oyster
• light as a feather, happy as an angel, merry as a schoolboy
• a small boy reading alone by a feeble fire
• show me no more
• 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends.'
• bah! humbug!
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future."
• "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
• "Any idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
• As solitary as an oyster.”
• “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” 
• “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.” 
• “There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.” 
• “The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.” 
• Scrooge says to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.” 
• About Scrooge’s grave: “overrun by grass and weeds.”
• About Scrooge’s grave: “overrun by grass and weeds.”
• : “I am as light as a feather, I am a happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
• He was as hard and sharp as flint.
• I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
• “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
• "What right have you to be dismal? You're rich enough." / “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
• Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be.
• The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it had cost a fortune
• I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now
• “You fear the world too much,” she answered gently.
• Upon the stone of the neglected grave… EBENEZER SCROOGE
• I’m quite a baby. Never mind. I’d rather be a baby.
• To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
• He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge
• a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous, old sinner
• the cold within him froze his old sinners