chritsmas carol half quotes Flashcards
Ebenezer Scrooge - Greed and Selfishness
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s.”
Ebenezer Scrooge - Isolation
“I wish to be left alone.”
“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.”
Ebenezer Scrooge - Redemption
“I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been.”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Ebenezer Scrooge - Christmas Spirit
“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding.”
“God bless us, every one!”
Ebenezer Scrooge - Social Responsibility
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”
Bob Cratchit - Family
“He ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s-buff.”
“I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!”
Bob Cratchit - Poverty
“The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.”
“They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed… but they were happy.”
Bob Cratchit - Optimism and Hope
“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family.”
“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.”
Bob Cratchit - Christmas Spirit
“A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!”
“There’s such a goose, Martha!”
Bob Cratchit - Social Responsibility
“He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”
“My little child! My little child!”
Fred - Christmas Spirit
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”
“I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”
Fred - Family
“Why cannot we be friends?”
“I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not.”
Fred - Optimism and Hope
“His wealth is of no use to him. He doesn’t do any good with it.”
“I pity him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried.”
Fred - Social Responsibility
“Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”
“I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried.”
Fred - Redemption
“He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier.”
“Let him in! It is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off.”
Jacob Marley - Greed and Selfishness
“I wear the chain I forged in life.”
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business.”
Jacob Marley - Social Responsibility
“The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
“Charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.”
Jacob Marley - Redemption
“I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”
“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.”
Jacob Marley - Guilt and Regret
“Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!”
“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”
Jacob Marley - The Supernatural
“It is required of every man… that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen.”
“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down?”
Tiny Tim - Family
“God bless us, every one!”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church… it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”
Tiny Tim - Poverty
“Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulder and was as light as a feather.”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”
Tiny Tim - Optimism and Hope
“He was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church.”
Tiny Tim - Innocence
“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.”
“He didn’t die; he was as hearty as gold.”
