A Christmas Carol Key Quotations Old Marley was

A Christmas Carol Key Quotations

‘Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. ’

‘Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’

"Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"

Scrooge - ‘Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, ’

Charity collector - ‘We should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute’

If they would rather die, " said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. "

Jacob Marley - ‘If that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. ’

Jacob Marley - “I wear the chain I forged in life, "

Jacob Marley - ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; ’

Ghost of Christmas Past - ‘The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. ’

"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Ghost of Christmas Past - ‘You are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. ’

The Ghost of Christmas Past - ‘This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both. ’

Scrooge - ‘Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends. if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. ’

Scrooge - ‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ’

‘He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew. ’

‘His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. ’

He knew how to keep Christmas well. ’ ‘

‘And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!’