Time Quotes Flashcards
‘What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer, a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen months presented against you?’
‘At length the hour of shuttling up the counting house arrived. With an I’ll-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out’
‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence, were all my business…held up its chain at arms length, as if it were the cause of its unavailing grief’
‘To his great astonishment the heavy bell went on from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong.’
‘They charged into the street with the shutters - one, two, three - had ‘em up in their places - four, five, six - barred em and pinned ‘em - seven, eight nine - and came back before you could have got to twelve, like panting race-horses…wonderful agility’
‘When the bell struck one, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling. Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came. All this time, he lay upon the bed…the clock proclaimed the hour’
