A Christmas Carol Key Quotations

‘Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.’

‘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,’

‘We should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute’ 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.’

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

‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business;’ 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!’