A Christmas Carol - Key Quotes

A Christmas Carol - Key Quotes

Scrooge: "Bah Humbug!"

Narrator: "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, cluthing covetous old sinner!"

Scrooge: "If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holy through his heart. He should!"

Fred: "I am sorry for [Scrooge]. I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always."

Narrator:"There's nothing in the world so irresistably contagious as laughter and good humour"

Scrooge to the Ghost of Jacob Marley:"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Ghost of Jacob Marley to Scrooge:"No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused"

Ghost of Christmas Past:"What! Would you so soon put out, the light I give?"

Scrooge:"Ghost of the Future i fear you more than any spectre i have seen. But i know your purpose is to do me good, and as i hope to live to be another man from what i was, i am prepared to…