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.
