A Christmas Carol Key Quotes

• About Scrooge: "as solitary as an oyster"
• About Scrooge: "Hard and sharp as flint"
• About Scrooge: "He carried his own low temperature around with him"
• About Scrooge: "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, he learned to associate pleasure with being left alone."
• About Scrooge: "Nobody stopped him in the street to say, 'My dear Scrooge, how are you?'"
• Scrooge: "Bah! Humbug"
• Scrooge: "Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on his lips... should be buried at the stake with a holly through his heart"
• Scrooge: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
• Scrooge: "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Scrooge: "It's not my business"
• Scrooge: "I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."
• Scrooge: "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. A merry Christmas to everybody. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo!"
• Scrooge: "I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby"
• Scrooge: "I'll send it to Bob Cratchit!"
• Scrooge: "I have come to dinner. Will you let me in Fred?"
• Scrooge: "Therefore I am about to raise your salary!"
• About Scrooge: "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and became as a good a friend, as good as a master, and as good as a man, as good as the old city knew"
• Marley: "I wear the chain I forged in life...The chain was made up of cash boxes..ledgers..heavy purses"
• Marley: "You may be an undigested bit of beef"
• Marley: "My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole"
• Marley: "Mankind was my business!"
• About Bob Cratchit: "The clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal"
• Scrooge: "There's another fellow, my clerk with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and a family, talking about a merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam" About Bob Cratchit
• About Cratchit Family: "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot, Mater Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour, Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce"
• Tiny Tim: "God bless us every one"
• Mrs Cratchit: "Mr Scrooge. I'd give him a piece of my mind"
• Belle: "Another idol has displaced me.. a golden one"
• Belle: "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, until the master passion, Gain engrosses you"
• Belle: "May you be happy in the life that you have chosen"
• Scrooge: "No more! Show me no more!" about Belle
• About Belle: "Now a comely matron sitting opposite her daughter"
• Fred: "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough."
• Fred: "I have always thought of Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"
• Fred: "Don't be angry Uncle. Merry Christmas!"
• Fred: "If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew all I can say is I should like to know him too."
• Fred: "Scrooge's offences carry their own punishment. Who suffers? Himself!"
• Ghost of Christmas Past: "Would you so soon put out the light I give?"
• Ghost of Christmas Past: " Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air , each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten"
• Ghost of Christmas Past: "Strange to have forgotten it for so many years"
• Ghost of Christmas Past: "To see Scrooge's extraordinary voice between laughing and crying..and his excited face..would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city"