Quotes Flashcards
“He was a….” Stave one
“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint”
“The cold within him…” S1
“The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose shrivelled his lips, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red and his thin lips blue”
“He iced his office…” S1
“He iced his office in the dog-days and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas”
“There are many things from which I…” S1
“There are many things from which I have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say […] Christmas-time [is…] a charitable, pleasant time, [when] men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” Fred on how great Christmas is
“I wear the chain I forged…” S1
“I wear the chain I forged in life, I made it link by link and yard by yard. I girded it of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” Marley
“Business!” S1
“Business! […] Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” Marley
“It was a strange figure…” S2
“It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium”
“Its hair […] was white with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it”
“The arms were very long and muscular”
“Its legs and feet, most delicately formed”
Describing Christmas Past
“Scrooge had acted…” S2
“Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self.” Scrooge after seeing Fezziwig’s ball.
“[Scrooge’s] face had begun to…” S2
“[Scrooge’s] face had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice.”
“Another idol…” S2
“Another idol has displaced me. […] Gain engrosses you. […] Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so […] you are changed. When it was made, you were another man.” Belle breaking up with Scrooge
“I went forth last night…” S3
“I went forth last night upon compulsion, and I learned a lesson which is working now. Tonight if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.” Scrooge to Christmas Present
“Mrs. Cratchit […] dressed out…” S3
“Mrs. Cratchit […] dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church…” S3
“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.” Tiny Tim
“Scrooge hung his head” S3
“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit and was overcome with penitence and grief” after Spirit says decrease surplus population
“They were not a handsome…” S3
“They were not a handsome family they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty. But they were happy, grateful pleased with one another.” Cratchit description
