Quotes Flashcards
Oyster
As solitary as an oyster
Flint
As hard and sharp as flint
Temp dont infulence
“External heat and cold had little influence on
Scrooge.”
Cheap darkness
Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it
Buisness-jacob marley
Mankind was my buisness
Merry christams-fezziwig
wished him or her a Merry Christmas.
Worship money-belle
Another idol has displaced me…a golden one
Scrooge alone-belles husband
“Quite alone in the world, l do believe.”
Founder feast-Bob crachit
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast.”
Cheap funeral
“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,”
Release-belle
“I release you”(from contract)
Decrease population-scrooge
Decrease the surplus population”
I am-scrooge
I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.
Tiny tim not die
“to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father”
Idle meery-scrooge
I can’t afford to make idle people merry
Spirits live in him-scrooge
“The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”
Keep lessons from spirits-scrooge
“I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Dont wont to see anymore-scrooge
‘No more. I do not wish to see it. Show me no more.’
Marley dead
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Child and old man-christmas past
like a child: yet not so like a child as an old man.
Phantom moved
The phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.
Fear spectre
‘I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.’
Bob only make 15
Bob had but fifteen bob’ a week himself.
Melancholy, dinner tavern
his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.
Covetous old sinner
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
Oxymoron happy-said by scrooge about fezziwig
He has the pwer to make us Happy or unhappy
