A Christmas Carol Quotes

• “He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone” -Stave 1
• “Solitary as an oyster” -Stave 1
• “Hard and sharp as flint” -Stave 1
• “No wind that blew was bitterer than he” -Stave 1
• “Are there no prisons… And the union workhouses?


  ” -Stave 1
• “Decrease the surplus population!” -Stave 1
• “A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket“ -Stave 1
• “Sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self” -Stave 2
• “I should like to have given him something: that’s all” -Stave 2
• “He has the power to render us happy or unhappy” -Stave 2
• “The happiness he gives is quite as if it cost a fortune” -Stave 2
• “I should just like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now!” -Stave 2
• “You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day” -Stave 3
• “Oh, no, kind spirit! Say that he will be spared” -Stave 3
• “Have they no refuge or resource?” -Stave 3
• “You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us” -Stave 4
• “I know your purpose is to do me good” -Stave 4
• “I see the case of this unhappy man might be my own” -Stave 4
• “In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me” -Stave 4
• “I am not the man I was.” -Stave 4
• “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” - Stave 4
• “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” -Stave 5
• “I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man” -Stave 5
• “It is I. Your Uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner” -Stave 5
• “Bob, my good fellow… I‘ll raise your salary “ -Stave 5
• ” He boasted no great coat “ -Stave 1
• “The clerk‘s fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal “ -Stave 1
• “He didn’t believe there was ever such a goose cooked “ -Stave 3
• “Mr Scrooge… the Founder of the Feast !“ -Stave 3
• “My little, little child !” -Stave 4
• “It really seemed as if he had known out Tiny Tim, and felt with us “ -Stave 4
• “ A merry Christmas, Uncle ! God save you !” -Stave 1
• “His eyes sparkled “ -Stave 1
• “Come dine with us tomorrow !” -Stave 1
• “His offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him “ -Stave 3
• “I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried “ -Stave 3
• “It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its face “ -Stave 4
• “The spirit paused for a moment… giving him time to recover “ -Stave 4
• “The hand was sight before him”-Stave 4
• “Plundered bereft, unwatched , unwept , uncared for, was the body of this man “ -Stave 4