Key Quotes Flashcards
“As solitary as an oyster.
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Stave 1
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.”
? Stave one
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
?stave 1
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
? Stave 1
Marley’s Ghost:“Mankind was my business.”
?stave 1
Marley’s Ghost: “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”
?stave 1
There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.”
Stave 2
About the Fezziwig family: “…shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas.”
Stave 2
Scrooge about Mr Fezziwig: “The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”
Stave 2
Belle to Scrooge: “Another idol has displaced me.”
Stave 2
Belle about Scrooge: “I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
Stave 2
Belle’s husband to Belle about Scrooge: “Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”
Stave 2
There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad.”
Stave 3
About the Ghost of Christmas Present: “Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch.”
Stave 3
About the Cratchit’s goose: “a feathered phenomenon.”
Stave 3
