Stave 1 Quotes Flashcards
Scrooge 1
“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,
Scrooge!”
Scrooge 2
“Hard and sharp as flint.”
Scrooge 3
“‘External heat and cold had little
influence on Scrooge”
Prisons and workhouses
"”Are there no Prisons?”“Are there no work houses
Population
“they had better do it, and decrease the surplus
population.”
Atmosphere 1
“‘Piercing, searching, biting cold.’”
Atmosphere 2
” ‘It was cold, bleak, biting weather.’”
Marley’s Ghost 1
” I wear the chain i forged in lie. “ You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous Chain.
Marley’s Ghost 2
“‘To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it
had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue.’ (Scrooge after seeing Marley’s face)”
Fred 1
” when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave”
Fred 2
““his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled”
Bob 1
“little confined scape”
