Scrooge Flashcards
‘Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner…self-contained, and solitary as an oyster’
Q1
‘I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned - they cost enough…rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’
Q2
‘There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something: that’s all’
Q3
‘Speaking unconsciously like his former not latter self, he has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome’
Q4
‘Submissively…’I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learned a lesson which is working now. Tonight if you aught to teach me, let me profit’
Q5
‘Surplus population’. Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief’
Q6
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year…the spirits of all three shall strive within me’
Q7
‘Splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs! I…don’t care. I’d rather be baby. Hallo!’
Q8
‘Merrier Christmas Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary…make up the fires’
Q9
