Key Quotes Flashcards
“As solitary as an oyster.
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Stave 1
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.”
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“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.”
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Marley’s Ghost: “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”
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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
“There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t believe there ever was such a goose cooked.”
Stave 3
About Tiny Tim: “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Stave 3
Bob Cratchit: “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast.”
Stave 3
About Ignorance and Want: “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.”
Stave 3
Scrooge says to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.”
Stave 4
Two Business Colleagues: “It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” said the same speaker; for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.”
Stave 4
