Scrooge Quotations Flashcards

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Quotation showing he is miserly (hoards money and hates spending it).

A

Oh! But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!

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Quotation showing Scrooge wasn’t jovial (happy an cheerful)
(Swgscc)

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A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!

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Quotation showing Scrooge NOT being munificent (generous)

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Hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire

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Scrooge NOT being gregarious (enjoying others company)

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Secret and self contained and solitary as an oyster

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Scrooge is a cold character (2)

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He carried his own low temperature

No warmth could warm, no winters weather could chill him.

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Scrooges appearance

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His old features nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek.

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Quotation to show Scrooge doesn’t see how someone can be happy with no money

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“What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough”
“My clerk with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and kids talking about a merry Christmas “

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