a christmas carol quotes

• Fred: 'I believe it has done me good, and will do me good, and I say God bless it!'
• Scrooge: 'Are there no prisons? Are there no workshouses?'
• Belle: 'Until the master passion, gain, engrosses you'
• Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Shrouded in a black garment
• Belle: 'Another idol has displaced me; a golden one'
• Ghost of Christmas Past: 'not so like a child, as like an old man'
• Scrooge: 'I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart'
• Marley: 'Old Marley was as dead as a door - nail'
• Scrooge: 'If they would rather die', said Scrooge, 'they had better do it and decrease the surplus population'
• Scrooge: Secret and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster
• Scrooge: 'I am as light as a feather'
• Scrooge: 'gave a freer passage to his tears'
• Marley: 'I wear the chain I forged in life'
• Scrooge: 'What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough'

  Fred: 'What reason have you to be morose?' You're rich enough'
• Marley: 'Mankind was my business'
• Bob: 'My little, little, child!', cried Bob, 'My little child!'
• Scrooge: 'I am as merry as a schoolboy'
• Scrooge: 'I hope to live to be another man from what I was'
• Scrooge was better than his word
• Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Slowly, gravely, silently
• Ghost of Christmas Past: 'It may be that in sight of Heaven you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor mans child'
• Scrooge: A solitary child, neglected by his friends