Christmas carol quotes

• 'Ever person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did'
• 'Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons'
• ''A little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'dear, dear brother' ''
• 'there was nothing of high mark in this. they were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty'
• 'my little, little child!' cried Bob
• 'no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse'
• 'He could not hide the light: which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground'
• 'I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.'
• 'your lip is trembling, said the Ghost'
• 'and what is that upon your cheek?'
• 'there was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something; that's all'
• 'Hear me! I am not the man I was. I will be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, If i am past all hope?'
• 'Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more'
• 'I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon.'
• 'His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.'
• 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy'
• 'the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and lost the power for ever.'
• 'From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light'
• 'he has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make out service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil.'
• '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.'
• '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. Oh, tell me I many sponge away the writing on this stone'
• 'I am sure I have always though of christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time... the only time... when men and women seem by once consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. '
• 'and every man on board... had a kinder word for one another on that day than on any day in the year...'
• 'He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!'
• 'there are some upon this earth of yours... who lay claim to know us, and who do thei deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name..'
• 'you fear the world too much'
• 'the Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.'
• 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.'
• 'It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge.'