A Christmas Carol Quotes

• Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary
• “Oh but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone
• A squeezing wrenching grasping scraping clutching covetous old sinner
• Hard and sharp as flint
• Solitary as an oyster
• He carried his own low temperature always
• No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him, no wind that blew was bitterer than he
• It was cold bleak biting weather
• The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole
• But the clerks fire was so very much smaller
• Fred: He was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled and his breath smoked again
• What reason have you to be merry?

  you’re poor enough
• What’s Christmas time to you, but a time for paying bills and finding yourself a year older and not a penny richer
• Every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
• Fred: Men and women by one consent seem to open their shut up hearts feely, and to think of people below them as if they were fellow passengers to the grave
• Many thousands are in want of common necessities; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts sir
• The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour then?

  … useful course
• I can’t afford to make idle people merry
• Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened
• The ancient tower of a church whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge
• Foggier yet and colder. Piecing, searching, biting cold
• Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it
• Cashboxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel
• The chain he drew was clasped around his middle. It was long and wound him like a tail
• I wear the chain I forged in life
• Marley: incessant torture of remorse
• Mankind was my business, the common welfare was my business, charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were nothing but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business
• From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light
• He was conscious of a thousand of ours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys and cares long, long, forgotten
• Fezziwig: organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat , jovial voice
• Fezziwig’s party: and there was a great piece of cold boiled, and there were mince pies, and plenty of beer
• A positive light appeared from Fezziwig’s calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons
• His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self. He corroborated everything, remembered everything, and underwent the strangest agitation
• The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
• No i should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now that’s all
• But it had begun to wear the signs of greed and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye
• Another idol has displaced me…. a golden one
• Might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed
• Belle: I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one… gain engrosses you
• Ghost of Christmas present: Heaped up to the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat