A Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Bah
Bah humbug
Undigested
You may be an undigested bit of beef
Surplus
If they want to die they had best do it and decrease the surplus population
Oyster
Solitary as an oyster
Workhouses
Are there no prisons? Workhouses?
Darkness
Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it
Forged
I wear the chains I forged in life
Heart
I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year
Heat
Heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge
Melancholy
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern
Solitary
A solitary child neglected by his friends
Fist
Tight handed fist at the grindstone
Salary
I’m about to raise your salary
Clerk
I would like to say a word or two to my clerk
Smaller
The clerks fire was so very much smaller
Mankind
Mankind was my buissness
Torture
Why do you delight to torture me
Light
Scrooge could not hide the light
Spared
Say he will be spared
Chosen
May you be happy in the life you have chosen
Crutch
I see a crutch without an owner
Ignorance
This boy is ignorance. This girl is want
Was
I’m not the man I was
Shadows
Are these the shadows of the things that will be or are they the shadows of the things that may be only
Sponge
Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone
Second
And to tiny Tim that did not die he was a second father
Bless
God bless us everyone