Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Solitary…
as an oyster.
Hard and sharp as…
flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.
No wind that blew…
was bitterer than he.
If they would rather die…
they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Are there…
no prisons?
The air was…
filled with phantoms.
Mankind…
was my business.
I wear…
the chain I forged in life.
I cannot rest…
I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.
They sought to interfere…
for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
It was a strange figure…
like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.
From the crown of its head…
there sprung a bright clear jet of light.
Would you so soon put out…
with worldly hands, the light I give?
There is nothing…
on which it is so hard as poverty.
He rubbed his hands…
adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself.
I am mortal…
and liable to fall.
There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door…
I should have liked to have given him something.
He could no more…
sleep, than go to heaven.
What Idol has displaced you?
A golden one.
Quite..
alone in the world, I do believe.
Tonight, if you have ought to teach me…
let me profit by it.
Scrooge was the ogre of the family. The mention of…
his name cast a dark shadow on the party.
Alas for Tiny Tim…
he bore a little crutch.
Scrooge…
was overcome with penitence and grief.
This boy is Ignorance…
this girl is Want. Beware them both.
As I hope to live to be another man from what I was…
I am prepared to bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart.
A spectral hand…
and one great heap of black.
He frightened everyone away when he was alive…
to profit us when he was dead!
Let me see some tenderness…
connected with a death.
I am not…
the man I was.
Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me…
by an altered life!
He found that everything could…
yield him pleasure.
Scrooge was better than his word…
He did it all, and infinitely more.
His own heart laughed…
and that was quite enough for him.
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him…
but he let them laugh.
God bless Us…
Every One!
