Scrooge Quotes

• Narrator: "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner"
• Narrator: "Secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster"
• Scrooge: "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Scrooge: "Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone"
• Narrator: "he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone"
• Narrator: "External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge"
• Narrator: "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him"
• Scrooge: "What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough!"
• Narrator: "During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self. He corroborated everything, remembered everything, enjoyed everything"
• Scrooge: "I am as light as a feather"
• Scrooge: "The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs"
• Scrooge: "Will you let me in Fred?"
• Scrooge: "Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life"
• Scrooge: "‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."