Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Quotes that show money
“Another golden idle has displaced me”
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
“Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
“Decrease the surplus population”
“Are there no prison are there no work houses”
Quotes to describe Scrooge
“Solitary as an oyster”
Quotes about tiny Tim
“He’s as good as gold”
Quotes to show redemption
“I will honour Xmas in my heart”
“ I am as light as a feather as happy as an angel and as merry as a school boy”
“Prize turkey”
Quotes to show joy
“Potato’s jumping up at the pan lid”
“Small pudding for a large family”
Quotes from Marley’s ghost I
“ I wear the chain I forged in life I made it link by link”
Quotes from ghost of Xmas past
“It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child” juxtaposition
Quotes of Xmas present
Most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
“This is ignorance and this is want beware of them both”
Quotes from ghost of yet to come
“I fear you more than any spectre I have seen”
Context
1834 poor law
Work houses
Snow
A clean sheet of snow on the roof dirty on the ground - class divide
