Christmas Carol Qoutes Flashcards
Marley
7
“Dead as a door nail”
“Made of keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, purses”
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
“Walk through crowds of fellow people with my eyes turned down”
“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
“Mankind was my business”
“I am here to warn you, you have a chance of hope of escaping my fate”
Belle
5+1
“Another idol has displaced me… a golden one”
“You are changed… yuh are another man”
“Happiness when we where one in heart, misery now we are two”
“Dowerless girl”
“Neat to the fire sat a beautiful young girl”
“Quite alone in the world I do believe”
Fezziwig
8
“Capacious waistcoat”
“Organ of benevolence”
“Oily rich, fat, jovial voice”
“Skipping down with wonderful agility”
“Fuel was heaped upon the fire”
“In came all the young men and women employed in the business”
“A positive light appeared form fezziwigs calves”
“Lads were left to there beds under a counter”
Tiny Tim
6
“I see a vacant seat… carefully reserved”
“As good as gold.. and better”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church”
“Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty”
“His stool before the fire”
“God bless us everyone”
Ghost of Christmas Past
4
“Like a child: yet not so like a child like an old man”
“From the crown of its head there spring a bright clear jet of light”
“Rise! And walk with me!”
“The grasp, though gentle as a woman’s hand was not to be resisted”
Ghost of Christmas present
6
“A kind of throne.. turkey, geese, game, poultry”
“A jolly giant”
“Bore a glowing torch”
“Come in! and know me better, man!”
“Genial face…cheery voice…joyful air”
“If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come
4
“It seemed to scatter gloom and mystery”
“Shrouded in a deep black garment”
“The spirit neither spoke nor moved”
“Mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread”
Fred
6
“He was all in a glow…his eyes sparkled… his breath smoked”
“A merry Christmas.. God save you”
“What reason have you to be merry you’re poor enough”
“There are many things of which I have derived good but not profited”
“A hearty laugh”
“His wealth is of no use to him”
“His mouldy old office, his dusty chambers”
Bob Cratchit
5
“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerks was so very much smaller”
“A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every 25 th of December””pleaded Bob”
“Tiny Tim upon his shoulder”
“Mr Scrooge the founder of the feast”
“My little little child cried Bob”
“In a dismal little cell”
Fan
3
“Dear, dear brother”
Laughed.. and laughed again”
“She had a large heart”
Cratchit Family
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Scrooge —> Stave 1
10
“He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“Are there no prisons?and the union workhouses?”
“Decrease the surplus population”
“No warmth could warm him”
“The cold within him froze”
“Edge his way along the crowded paths of life”
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
“ hard and sharp as flint”
“It was a very low fire indeed”
Stave 2—> Scrooge
6
“He could no more go to sleep than go to heaven”
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends”
“A lonely boy near a feeble fire”
“Show me no more! Conduct me home. Why do you delight to torture me?”
“I can not bear it!”
“He seized the extinguisher cap and by sudden action, seized it down upon its head”
Stave 3—>Scrooge
6
“Scrooge entered timidly”
“A tremendous family to provide for”
“Oh no, kind spirit! Say he will be spared”
“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words”
“Scrooge was the ogre of the family”
“The mention of his name cast a dark shadow”
“Begged like a boy to be allowed to stay”
“So gay and light of heart”
Ignorance and want
8
“Wrecked, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable”
“cling to me”
“Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolffish”
“A stale and shrivelled hand”
“They are mans”
“I see that written which is doom”
“Have they no refuge or resource”
“Are there no prisons are there no workhouses?”
