The Cratchits and Other Character Quotes

• Belle: "Another idol has displaced me, a golden one"
• Mrs Cratchit: "Twice-turned gown... brave in ribbons"
• Bob Cratchit: "My little, little child!" cried Bob "My little child!"
• Fred: "A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
• Fred: "His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled…"
• Fred: "[Christmas is]…’a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys’. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!’.
• Fred: "Because I fell in love"
• Bob Cratchit: "Mr Scrooge." said Bob; "I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast."
• Tiny Tim: "God bless us every one." said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
• Tiny Tim: "I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney- corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die."
• Tiny Tim: "He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see."