A christmas carol quotes Flashcards
What quotes describe Scrooge before he met the ghosts
He was solitary as an oyster
He was as hard and sharp as flint.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.
What quotes show Scrooges personality before he met the ghosts
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“What right have you to be dismal? You’re rich enough.” / “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
The poor should die if they want to, as it would “decrease the surplus population.”
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
What are some quotes Jacob Marley says
If that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
I wear the chain I forged in life.
Mankind was my business
What quotes show that Scrooge is changing
Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be
The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it had cost a fortune
I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried 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.”
What quote does the ghost of Christmas present say about ignorance and want
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.
What words does Belle say to Scrooge
“You fear the world too much,” she answered gently.
“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
What quote does Fred say about Scrooge
“I mean to give him the same chance every year, for I pity him.”
What Quotes shows that Scrooge has changed in Stave 5
I hope to live to be a better man from what I was.
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 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.”
“He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the Knowledge.”
What quotes does Bob Cratchit say about scrooge
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast.”
What quotes show that scrooge is changing in Stave 4
Scrooge says to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.”
What quotes describe the ghost of Christmas past
[A]s its belt sparkled and glittered, now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body; of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again, distinct and clear as ever.
What quote tells us that scrooge didn’t believe in the value of being visited by the ghost of Christmas past
[Scrooge] then made bold to inquire what business brought him there. “Your welfare!” said the ghost. Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end
What quote tells us that Scrooge snuffs out the ghost of Christmas past
The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form;
What quotes describe the ghost of Christmas present
Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanor, and its joyful air.
What quotes are said in relation to TIny Tim
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
