ACC quotes

• And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event
• But that he was an excellent man of business on the day of the funeral
• And solemnised it with an undoubted bargain ( marleys funeral )
• scrooge never painted our Old Marleys name
• A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December
• Secret and self contained , and solitary as an oyster.
• To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones called ‘nuts’ to Scrooge ( misanthropic )
• If they would rather die, […] they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
• Are there no prisons? [..] and the union workhouses? […] are they still in operation?
• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it
• Bah! […] Humbug!

  He tried to say ‘Humbug!’ but stopped at the first syllable
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
• A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire
• In the most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed
• Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene and with his former self.
• Nothing. there was a boy singing a christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given something: that’s all.
• No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk that’s all
• “What idol has displaced you?“ (scrooge)

  ”A golden one.”


  ( scrooge is so single minded he cannot see what he has done - hyper fixated on avaricious goaks )
• There was an eager, greedy restless motion in the eye

  where the shadow of the growing tree would fall

  ( greed has over taken scrooges vision of the world - and soon he will become blinded by it entirely. multilayered metaphor by dickens, darkens his world view and makes him miserable. )
• Your lip is trembling, said the ghost, and what is that upon your cheek?
• Show me no more! (Scrooge act 2 )
• Remove me! scrooge exclaimed, I cannot bear it!
• Though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light
• A tremendous family to provide for!

  scrooge only sees the price of family
• Why to a poor one most? Asked scrooge


  Disconnected upper class from poverty
• If he be like to die, he had better do it and decrease the surplus population ( repeated to scrooge )

  scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit

  and was overcome by penitence and grief
• ”spirit“ Scrooge said with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if tiny Tim will live”
• Have they no refuge or resource? cried scrooge
• It may be, that in the sight of heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to love than millions like this poor man’s child
• Scrooge was the ogre of the family
• “He‘s a comical old fellow” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that’s the truth“
• Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him
• I fear you more than any spectre I have seen ( Scrooge to ghost of COY )
• It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral ( link to Scrooge being stingy for marleys funeral )

  for upon my life I don’t know if anyone to go to it
• I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided
• old Scratch has got his own at last, hey?

  scratch: Victorian way to refer to the devil
• “So I am told” returned the second “cold isnt it“
• i see, I see, the case of this unhappy man might be my own, my life tends that way now
• 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 spirit of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
• Oh tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone!