a christmas carol key quotes

• 'tell me, will he die' - redemption
• 'a merry christmas to everybody' - redemption
• 'i can't afford to make idle people merry' - social injustice
• 'this boy is ignorance; this girl is want' - social injustice
• 'he became a good friend, as good as master, as good as man.' - family
• 'father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven' - family
• 'i couldn't be angry with him if i tried' - forgiveness and compassion
• 'allow me to ask your pardon. and you will have the goodness' - forgiveness and compassion
• 'no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.' - scrooge
• 'scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal.' - scrooge
• 'the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait.' - scrooge
• 'a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!' - scrooge
• 'solitary as an oyster' - scrooge
• 'hard and as sharp as flint' - scrooge
• 'if they would rather die. they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.' - scrooge
• 'he had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost.' - fred
• 'he was all in a glow, his face was ruddy and handsome' - fred
• 'left the room without an angry word.' - fred
• 'i wear the chain i forged in life.' - jacob marley
• 'no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse.' - jacob marley
• 'mankind was my business.' - jacob marley
• 'i made link by link, and yard by yard.' - jacob marley
• 'god bless us everyone!' - tiny tim
• 'feebly cried hurrah.' - tiny tim
• 'plaintive little voice.' - tiny tim
• 'i'll give you mr scrooge, the founder of the feast.' - bob cratchit
• 'bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.' - bob cratchit
• 'bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that tiny tim was growing strong and hearty.' - bob cratchit
• 'it was a strange figure - like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man.' - the ghost of xmas past
• 'it's hair ..... was white with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it.' - the ghost of xmas past
• ' a bright clear jet of light springing from its forehead.' - the ghost of xmas past
• 'it wore a tunic of the purest white' - the ghost of xmas past
• 'come in! and know me better man' - the ghost of xmas present
• 'crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe and ivy.' - the ghost of xmas present
• ' a jolly giant.' - the ghost of xmas present
• 'it's dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air.' - the ghost of xmas present
• ' it was shrouded in a deep, black garment.' - the ghost of xmas yet to come
• 'the phantom glided' - the ghost of xmas yet to come
• 'the phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.' - the ghost of xmas yet to come
• 'for in the very air through which this spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.' - the ghost of xmas yet to come