Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Describes Scrooge as flint with two adjectives
“Hard and Sharp as Flint”
Scrooge is described as lonely like a…
“Solitary as an oyster”
What Scrooge carries around with him (abstract)
“He carried his own low temperature around with him”
Showing how others behave around scrooge when they meet him
“Nobody stopped him in the street to say..’my dear Scrooge, how are you?’”
What Scrooge thinks the poor should do, questioning the charity workers
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
What Scrooge thinks about what the poor contribute to society, tells them to die.
“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Scrooge, only involved in himself about his business
It’s not my business”
Marley talking about the day of his funeral
“On the very day of the funeral, (Scrooge) solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.”
Marley talking about his chains and how he made them
“I wear the chain i forged in life… The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledges and heavy purses”
Marley Comparing Scrooge to beef
“You may be an undigested bit of beef”
Marley talking about his spirit staying fixed on business
“My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of out money changing hole”
Changed Scrooge talking about how he now will act about christmas
“I will honour Christmas with a.l my heart. I will live in the past, present and future. I will shout out the lessons that they teach.”
Changed Scrooge compares himself to opposites he was seen as at the start, e.g. light and happy
“I am 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”
Changed Scrooge accepts his lack of knowledge
“I don’t know anything, i’m quite a baby”
Scrooge forgiving all the people that owe him money
“Not a farthing less, a great many back payments are included in it.”
New Scrooge calls his nephew by his first name and asks to spend time with him and his family.
“I have come to dinner, will you let me in Fred”
Telling Cratchit good news about his job (reformed Scrooge)
“Therefore i am about to raise your salary!”
Talking about Bob Cratchit’s fire at Scrooge’s workplace.
“The clerk’s fire was so very much smalled that it looked like only one coal”
Scrooge talking about how Cratchit should not be happy about Christmas as he is too poor, Scrooge references an insane asylum.
“There’s another fellow, my clerk with fifteen shillings a week, a wife and family, talking about a merry christmas, I’ll retire to Bedlam”
Talking about Tiny Tim’s wishes off being allowed to walk and others with disabilities cured. E.g blind
“Tiny Time hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and remembered upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see”
Tiny Tim’s famous words near the end of the play praising God
“God bless us every one”
