A Christmas Carol - Quotes

Scrooge's Character

• 'A squeezing, wretching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!'
• 'Solitary as an oyster.'
• 'would tug their owners into doorways and up courts;'
• 'Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.'
• '"A time for paying bills without money."'
• '"... and decrease the surplus population."'
• 'Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it.'
• '"There's more of gravy than of grave about you,"'
• 'Wept to see his forgotten self.'
• 'Between laughing and crying.'
• '"I should have liked to have given him something."'
• '"The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."'
• 'Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before this Spirit.'
• '"A tremendous family to provide for," mutered Scrooge.'
• '"I learned a lesson which is working now."'
• '"Oh no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared."'
• 'Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.'
• 'he begged to be allowed to stay until the guests departed'
• '"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.'
• '"Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on!"'
• 'for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life,'
• '"He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead."'
• 'unwatched, unwept, uncared for,'
• '"I am not the man i was."'
• '"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."'
• '"Oh, tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone!"'
• '"An intelligent boy!" said Scrooge "A remarkable boy!"'
• 'Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile.'
• 'Allow me to ask your pardon"'
• 'Found that everything could yield him pleasure.'
• '"and therefore i am about to raise your salary!"'
• '"I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family,"'
• 'Scrooge was better than his word, he did it all, and indefinately more;'

The Cratchit Family

• 'went down a slideon Cornhill, at the end of lane of boys, in honour of it being Christmas Eve,'
• 'He regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since thier marriage.'
• '"I see a vacant seat.'
• '"Mr Scrooge, the founder of the Feast!"'
• 'Bob was very cheerful with them'
• '"Just a little down, you know,"'

The Ghosts

• 'Ghosts in haunted houses were described asdragging chains.'
• 'Felt the chilling influece of its death cold eyes;'
• '"Theres more of gravey than of grave about you,"'
• 'The spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.'
• 'like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man,'
• from the crown of its head there sprang a bright clear jet of light…