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’
What quotes does the Ghost of Christmas Present use to describe little Tim’s future ?
- “I see a vacant seat (..] in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die”
What quotes show The Ghost of Christmas present teaching Scrooge a lesson ?
- “If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
What quotes show the appearance of Ignorance and want from The Ghost of Christmas present ?
- ‘ The Ghost grew older, clearly older.’
- ‘From the foldings of its robe it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable’
- “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom”
-yelow.. scowling, wolfish’ - where angels might have sat… devils lurked
What quotes show the appearance and the effect of the Ghost of Christmas future ?
- ‘ The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery
- ‘Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him’
What quotes show The Ghost of Christmas future changing Scrooge ?
- “Spirit…I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way now”
- ’ Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood’
What quotes show how the relationship between Belle and Scrooge has changed ?
- “Our contract is an old one”
- “Another idol has displaced me”
- “A golden one”
- ” have seen your nobler aspirations fall off… ,Gain, engrosses you”
What quotes show Mr fezziwig’s appearance and affect ?
- ‘They shone in every part of the dance like moons’
- ‘Fezziwig cut – cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs’
- “The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
What quotes show Scrooge’s impression of Fezziwig ( him being a great employer ) ?
- "”The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
- “ Why, it’s old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it’s Fezziwig alive again!”
- “Yo ho there! Ebenezer! Dick! No more work tonight!”
What quotes show Mr Fezziwig displaying Dickens ideas ?
- ‘there was cake, … negus… a great piece of Cold Roast …’ ( list of food shows abundance and generosity of boss
- ‘Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations … ‘ ( shows he takes his social duty seriously )
What quotes show Fred’s view of Christmas ?
- “I have always thought of Christmas, … as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”
- “Don’t be angry, Uncle. Come!”
What quotes show Fred’s view on Scrooge ?
- “I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.”
- “Let him in! It’s a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off.”
What quotes show how poor the Cratchits?
- ‘The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal‘
- ‘ Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon ‘
- ‘ Mrs Cratchit entered - - flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball
What quotes show the appearance of the Cratchits ?
- dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown’
- ‘his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable
- ‘Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame’
What quotes show Bob’s view of Tiny Tim ?
- ’ “as good as gold,” said Bob’
- ‘he hoped the poeple aaw him in the church, because he was a cripple…’
- ‘ Bob held his withered little hand in his…’
What quote shows Scrooge’s changed attitude towards Bob ?!
- “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year. I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family”
What quotes show the appearance of the slums ?
- ’ into an obscure part of town …’
- ‘ways were foul and narrow …’
- ‘unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat …’
What quotes show people desecrating Scrooge’s corpse ?
- ‘laughing … “bed-curtains!”…’
- ‘but I took it off again…’
‘ Sheets, towels, a littlewearing apparel …’
What quotes show the couple in-debt’s relief ?
- ’ a kind of serous delight…’
- ’ she was thankful … prayed forgiveness ‘
- ‘~We may sleep tonight with light hearts…’
Quotes that show Tiny Tim’s grave ?
- ‘good to see how green a place it is …’
Quotes that show Scrooge’s grave ?
- ’ walled in… overrun by grass … , chocked up with too much burying …’
- ‘A worthy place!’
What quotes show Scrooge in Stanza 1?
- ‘Hard and sharp as flint’
- ‘gruff old bell was always peeping silly down at Scrooge’
- ‘the fog came pouring in…’
What quotes in Stanza 5 juxtapose Stanza 1 ?
- ‘ I am as light as a feather…’
- ‘churches ringing out the lustiest peals’
- ‘Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells’
What quotes show how Scrooge has changed in terms of qualities ?
- ‘The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!’
- ‘chuckle with which he paid for the turkey… he paid for the cab’
