A Christmas Carol Quotes
"Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, 'Bah!' again; and followed it up with 'Humbug.'" (3)
"'I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. 'Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.'" (6)
"In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley." (11)
"'Without their visits,' said the Ghost, 'you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the fell tolls one.'" (15)
"There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." (22)
"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil." (26)
"If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." (40)
"'God bless us everyone!' said Tiny Tim." (40)
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." (45)
"'Are there no prisons?' said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. 'Are there no workhouses?'" (50)
"He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!" (56)
"'Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.'" (62)
"It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?" (67)
"He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father." (68)
"'I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. 'Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.'" (6)
"In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley." (11)
"'Without their visits,' said the Ghost, 'you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the fell tolls one.'" (15)
"There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." (22)
"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil." (26)
"If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." (40)
"'God bless us everyone!' said Tiny Tim." (40)
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." (45)
"'Are there no prisons?' said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. 'Are there no workhouses?'" (50)
"He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!" (56)
"'Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.'" (62)
"It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?" (67)
"He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father." (68)
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