ACC Quotes

• Marley

  Dead as a doornail
• Scrooge

  • Tight-fisted
  • Hard and sharp as flint
  • Solitary as an oyster
  • External heat and cold had little influence on him
• It was cold, bleak, biting weather
• The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole
• Scrooge's clerk

  • Copying letters in a dismal little cell
• Fred

  • In a glow, ruddy and handsome, eyes sparkled
• At the ominous word 'liberality', Scrooge frowned
• Scrooge: '"I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry."'
• Scrooge: '"If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."'
• Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened
• Piercing, searching, biting cold
• There was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door
• Scrooge was startled and his blood was conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, after seeing Marley's face
• The same face: the very same (Marley's ghost)
• Scrooge: '"How now!" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever.'
• Marley's ghost: '"I wear the chain I forged in life."'
• Marley's ghost: '"Or would know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!"'
• Marley's ghost: '"No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse."'
• Marley's ghost: '"Mankind was my business."'
• The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever
• Scrooge tried to say 'Humbug!' but stopped at the first syllable
• Was it a dream or not?
• Scrooge found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor
• The Spirit

  • Like a child, yet not so like a child as like an old man
  • Wore a tunic of the purest white
  • From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light
• The Spirit: '"Are you the spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?"'
• The voice was soft and gentle
• The Spirit: '"Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?"'
• Scrooge: '"I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."'
• Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long forgotten
• The Spirit: '"Your lip is trembling," said the Ghost. "And what is that upon your cheek?"'
• The school is not quite deserted... A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still
• A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire
• Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be
• 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."'
• A little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'dear, dear brother'
• The girl: '"Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like Heaven!"'
• Fezziwig

  • Called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice
• Scrooge: '"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make out service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil."'
• Belle: '"Another idol has displaced me."'
• Belle: '"You fear the world too much."'