A Christmas Carol quotes Flashcards
“There sat a jolly giant… who bore a… “
“There sat a jolly giant… who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike plenty’s horn”
“Mankind was my business. The common… “
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business”
“He seized the extinguisher cap and by… “
“He seized the extinguisher cap and by sudden action pressed it down upon its head”
“He could not hide… “
“He could not hide the light”
“tell me if… “
“tell me if Tiny Tim will live”
“I see a… “
“I see a vacant seat”
“He has the power… “
“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy”
“Hard and sharp as flint, from which… “
“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire”
“Nobody said or thought… “
“Nobody said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family”
“They were happy, grateful… “
“They were happy, grateful pleased with one another”
“From the crown of its head there sprung… “
“From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light”
“Every idiot who goes about with… “
“Every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
“brave… “
“brave in ribbons”
“It was a sufficient dinner… “
“It was a sufficient dinner for the whole family”
“Fuel was heaped… “
“Fuel was heaped upon the fire”
“Another idol has… “
“Another idol has displaced me”
“A golden…”
“A golden one”
“You fear the… “
“You fear the world too much”
“I am light…”
“I am light as a feather”
“I am happy…”
“I am happy as an angel”
“I am merry…”
“I am merry as a school boy”
“All in a… “
“All in a glow”
“His eyes… “
“His eyes sparkled”
“Scrooge took… “
“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern”
“They are man’s… and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. The boy is…”
“They are man’s… and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. The boy is ignorance. The girl is want. Beware them both… but most of all this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is doom”
“When he thought another creature… “
“When he thought another creature quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father and been the spring time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.”
“If they would rather die… “
“If they would rather die… they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“He had a special desire to see…”
“He had a special desire to see the spirit in his cap; and begged him to be covered”
“Dismal… “
“Dismal little cell”
“A sort of… “
“A sort of tank”
“It looked like… “
“It looked like one coal”
“How green… “
“How green a place it is”
“Oh, but he was a tight-fisted…”
“Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner”
“read upon the stone of the… “
“read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name”
“A solitary child… “
“A solitary child neglected by his freinds”
“yet not so like a child… “
“yet not so like a child as like an old man”
“Why did I walk through…”
“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down”
