Christmas carol quotes Flashcards
“Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on his lips… should be buried with a stake of holly through his heart”
Scrooge
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“If they would rather die, they haqd better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Scrooge
“I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Scrooge
“I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man. “
Scrooge
“I have come to dinner. Will you let me in Fred?”
Scrooge
“I wear the chain I forged in life…The chain was made up of cash boxes..ledgers..heavy purses”
Marley
“The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that
it looked like only one coal”
Bob Cratchit
Hoped people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”
Tiny Tim
“Mr Scrooge. I’d give him a piece of my mind. An odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man”
Mrs Cratchit
“Another idol has displaced me.. a golden one”
Belle
“May you be happy in the life you have chosen”
Belle
“I have always thought
of Christmas as a good
time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”
Fred
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still – Scrooge sobbed.”
Ghost of Christmas past
(With Fezziwig) “Scrooge’s heart and soul were in the scene..he remembered everything, enjoyed everything.”
Ghost of Christmas past
“Scrooge was the ogre of the family and the mention of his name cast a dark shadow”
Ghost of Christmas present
