Quotations Flashcards
What are some quotes are describe Mr Scrooge ?
- ‘as solitary as an oyster’
- ‘as hard and sharp as fling’
- ‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetous old sinner’
- ‘Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
- ‘No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him’
What does Scrooges name mean ?
Word ‘Scrooge’ originates from scrounge ( meaning to crush or squeeze )
What quotes show Scrooge’s money hoarding habit ?
- ‘ Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.’
What quotes show the views of the men who arrived to Perseus charity ?
- ‘ …we should make some slight provisions for the poor and destitute,’
- ‘ … fund to buy the poor some meat and drink ….’
- ‘ we choose this time … when want is keenly felt, and abundance rejoices ‘
What are some quotes are describe Mr Scrooge’s views?
- ‘Are there no prisons ? Are there no workhouses ?’
- ‘decrease the surplus population’
What are some quotes are describe Mr Scrooge In the past ?
- ‘a solitary boy neglected by his friends’
- ‘lonely boy sitting by a feeble fire’
- ‘And he sobbed…’
Scrooge’s response to the past ?
- ‘No more !” cried Scrooge. “ No more! …”’
- ’ relentless ghost pinioned him … forced him to observe…’
- ‘extinguisher … preset it down .. could not hide the light ..’
What are some quotes are describe Mr Scrooge changing ?
- ‘Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have given him something: that’s all’
- ‘If you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it’
- ’ Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief’
- ’ “Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “heat me. I am not the man I was”
What are some quotes that prove Mr Scrooge has changed ?
- ’ “ I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will in live in the Past, Present, and the Future” ‘
- ’ “ I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man”
- ’ “Not a farthing less. A great many back payments are included in it “ ‘
- ’ Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father ‘
What are some quotes that describe Marley ?
- ’ old Marley was as dead as a doornail ‘
- ’ The same face: the very same. ‘
- ’ Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots […] ‘
- ’ [..] often heard Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it until now.
What are some quotes that describe Fred ?
- ‘ his face was ruddy and handsome; and his eyes sparkled, …’
What are some quotes that show Marley’s regrets in life ?
- ’ “ I wear the chain I forged in life… I made it link by link, yard by yard… and of my own free will I wore it” ‘
- ’ it was made… of cash boxes, heavy purses ‘
- ’ “Mankind was my business ! [ … ] The deals of my trade were but a drop in the comprehensive ocean of my business “ ‘
What quotes describe the Ghost of Christmas Past ?
- ’ 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’
- … the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness …’ ( fluctuating reflects memory / the past - that it isn’t fixed it’s how we remember )
What quotes show the Ghost of Christmas Past critising Scrooge ?
- ’ “would you soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give. Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow “ ‘
- ’ “ Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer! “ ‘
What quotes show the appearance of the Ghost of Christmas Present ?
- ‘ There sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge’
- ‘It was clothed in one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur ‘
- ‘free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air’
