Christmas Carol Key Quotes Flashcards
Key quote for transformation & redemption (1)
There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my
door last night. I should like to have given him
something: that’s all
Key quote for transformation & redemption (2)
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!
Key quote for poverty (1)
Many thousands are in want of common necessities
Key quote for poverty (2)
Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family
Key quote for poverty (3)
What reason have you to be merry/morose? You’re poor/rich enough
Key quote for family & relationships (1)
Good afternoon
Key quote for family & relationships (2)
A merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!
Key quote for social injustice (1)
If they would rather die… they had
better do it, and decrease the surplus
population
Key quote for social injustice (2)
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!
Key quote for social injustice (3)
Are there no prisons?… workhouses?
Key quote for isolation (1)
Solitary as an oyster
Key quote for isolation (2)
A solitary child, neglected by his friends
Key quote for christmas spirit (1)
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I
can’t afford to make idle people merry
Key quote for christmas spirit (2)
He called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice
Key quote for greed (1)
Another idol has displaced me… a golden one
