Quotes For Scrooge Flashcards
1
Q
“A tight-fisted…
A
Hand at the grindstone”
2
Q
“A squeezing…
A
Wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,covetous old sinner!”
3
Q
“Self contained and…
A
Solitary as an oyster”
4
Q
“The cold within…
A
Him froze his old features”
5
Q
“External heat and…
A
Cold had little influence on Scrooge”
6
Q
“ no warmth could…
A
Warm, not wintry weather chill him”
7
Q
“It was cold bleak…
A
Biting weather”
8
Q
“ a time you’re finding yourself a year…
A
Older, and not an hour richer”
9
Q
“Are there no prisons…
A
And the union workhouses?”
10
Q
“I can’t afford…
A
To make idle people merry”
11
Q
“If they would rather die…
A
They had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
12
Q
“A poor excuse for…
A
Picking a man’s pocket every twenty fifth of December”
