Quotes Flashcards
Scrooge
Business
It’s enough for a man to understand his own business and not to interfere with other people’s
About scrooge
Alone
Solitary as an oyster
About scrooge
Cold
Hard and as cold as a flint
Weather
It was cold, bleak, boring weather: foggy withal
About Bob cratchit
Coal
The clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal
Cheap
Darkness was cheap and scrooge liked it
Scrooge
Surplus
They had better hurry up and decrease the surplus population
Fred
Rich enough
What reason have you to be morose, your rich enough
Ghost of Christmas past
Light
Would you so soon put out the light I give
Fred
Describing christmas
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time
Scrooge
Prisons? Workhouses?
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Marley
Narrow limits
My spirit never left the narrow limits of our money changing whole
Marley
Mankind
Mankind was my business
Marley
Chains
I wear the chains I forged in life
Scrooge
Tiny Tim
Tell me spirit will tiny Tim live
Scrooge
Purpose is to do me good
I fear you more than any other spectre j have seen. But I know your purpose is to do me good and I hope to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bare your company.
Belle
Golden idol
Another idol has replaced me… A golden one
Scrooge
Past present future
I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the past the present and the future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
Ghost of Christmas present
Want and ignorance
The boy is ignorance, the girl is want, beware them both but beware the boy most of all
