A Christmas Carol Quotes

• 'As hard and sharp as flint' - About Scrooge
• 'As solitary as an oyster' - About Scrooge
• 'If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population' - Said by Scrooge
• "I wear the chain I forged in life" - Said by Marley's Ghost
• 'The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledgers... heavy purses' - About Marley's Ghost
• 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still - Scrooge sobbed' - About Scrooge seeing his younger self
• "I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now" - Said by Scrooge about Bob Cratchit at Fezziwig's party
• 'A jolly giant who bore a glowing torch.' - About the Ghost of Christmas Present
• 'Scrooge was the ogre of the family and the mention of his name cast a dark shadow.' - About the Cratchits about Scrooge
• 'It was shrouded in a deep black garment.' - About the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• 'Upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name.' - About Scrooge's grave
• "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man." - Said by Reformed Scrooge
• 'External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge - About Scrooge
• 'Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.' - About Scrooge
• "Mankind was my business." - Said by Marley's Ghost
• "I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance of escaping my fate." - Said by Marley's Ghost
• "There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." - Said by Scrooge
• 'Shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a merry Christmas' - About the Fezziwigs
• "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune." - Said by Scrooge about Fezziwig
• "Another idol has displaced me." - Said by Belle to Scrooge
• "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engroses you." - Said by Belle about Scrooge
• "Quite alone in the world, I do believe." - Said by Belle's Husband to Belle about Scrooge
• 'There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness abroad.'
• 'A feathered phenomenon' - About the Cratchits' goose
• 'There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there was ever such a goose cooked.' - About Bob Cratchit and his goose
• "If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die." - Said by the Ghost of Christmas Presents to Scrooge about Tiny Tim
• "I'll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast." - Said by Bob Cratchit
• "This boy is ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and their degree, but most of all beware this boy." - Said by the Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge
• "I am prepared to bear you company and do it with a thankful heart." - Said by Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• "It's likely to be a cheap funeral," said by the same speaker, "for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it." - Said by business colleagues about Scrooge's funeral
• "I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now." - Said by Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• "I wished you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is.' - Said by Bob Cratchit to Tiny Tim's grave
• "It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us." - Said by Bob Cratchit about Fred's kindness
• 'Overrun by grass and weeds.' - About Scrooge's grave
• "I will not shut out the lessons that they teach." - Said by Scrooge about the Sprits
• "The spirits of all three shall strive within me." - Said by Scrooge
• 'Scrooge was better than his word. Be did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.' - About Scrooge and Tiny Tim
• 'He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.' - About Reformed Scrooge