Quotes

• "As solitary as an oyster"
• "External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge."
• ""If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "Then they had better do it and decrease the surplus polulation.""
• "Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
• "Mankind was my business."
• "I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate." - Marley
• "There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." - Scrooge
• "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune." - Scrooge about Fezziwig
• "Another idol has displaced me." - belle to Scrooge
• "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you." - Belle about Scrooge
• "Quite alone in the world, I do believe." - Belle's husband about Scrooge
• "If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die." About Tiny Tim
• "I don't know of anybody to go to it." - About Scrooge's funeral
• "The case of this unhappy man might be my own." - Scrooge