A Christmas Carol key quotes

• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
• Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
• A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
• Hard and sharp as a flint.
• Solitary as an oyster.
• The cold within him froze his old features.
• Cold, bleak, biting weather; foggy withal.
• Dismal little cell.
• The clerk's fire looked like one coal.
• A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!
• What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

  What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.
• 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.
• I have always thought of Christmastime ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. [The poor are] not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
• Because I fell in love.
• If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.
• Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so.
• His melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.
• Cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses.
• I wear the chain I forged in life.
• It is a ponderous chain.
• Mankind was my business.
• Twelve! The clock was wrong. Twelve!
• Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.
• Wore a tunic of purest white.
• Dress trimmed with summer flowers.
• From the crown of its head there sprang a bright clear jet of light.
• The figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness.
• The voice was soft and gentle.
• These are the shadows of the things that have been, they have no consciousness of us.
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
• Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.
• It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.
• A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire.
• Laughing and crying.
• I have come to bring you home, dear brother!
• Dear, dear brother!
• Father is so much kinder than he used to be.
• Laughed all over himself from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out, in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice.
• Fuel was heaped upon the fire.
• In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and every how.