Random quotes

• Scrooge: '"As solitary as an oyster."'
• Scrooge: '"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge."'
• Scrooge: '"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."'
• Scrooge: '"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."'
• Marley's Ghost: '"Mankind was my business."'
• Marley's Ghost: '"I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate."'
• Scrooge: '"There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all."'
• About the Fezziwig family: '"…shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas."'
• Scrooge about Mr Fezziwig: '"The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune."'
• Belle to Scrooge: '"Another idol has displaced me."'
• Belle about Scrooge: '"I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you."'
• Belle's husband to Belle about Scrooge: '"Quite alone in the world, I do believe."'
• About the climate and town: '"There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad."'
• About the Ghost of Christmas Present: '"Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch."'
• About the Cratchit's goose: '"a feathered phenomenon."'
• Bob Cratchit about the goose: '"There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked."'
• About Tiny Tim: '"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die."'
• Bob Cratchit: '"I'll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast."'
• About Ignorance and Want: '"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy."'
• Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: '"I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart."'
• Two Business Colleagues: '"It's likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it."'
• Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: '"I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now."'
• Bob Cratchit about Tiny Tim's grave: '"I wish you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is."'
• Bob Cratchit about Fred's kindness: '"It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us."'
• About Scrooge's grave: '"overrun by grass and weeds."'
• Scrooge on what he has learnt: '"I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."'
• Scrooge: '"The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me."'
• Scrooge: '"I am as light as a feather, I am a happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man."'
• Scrooge: '"He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the Knowledge."'
• Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.