“The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.” – Charles Dickens
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time.” – Charles Dickens
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” – Charles Dickens
“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” – Charles Dickens
“Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.” – Jacob Marley
“It should be Christmas day, I am sure, on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge.” – Fred
“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” – Charles Dickens
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Jacob Marley
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner.” – Charles Dickens
“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” – Jacob Marley
“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Bob Cratchit A PERSON WHO LOVES DOGS QUOTES
“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge.
“Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, nor thine on me.” – Charles Dickens
“You have labored on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!” – Scrooge
“I have come to bring you home, dear brother!” – Ghost of Christmas Past
“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” – Charles Dickens
“Come in, –come in! and know me better, man!” – Ghost of Christmas Present
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“It’s Christmas Day! I haven’t missed it!” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“God bless us every one!” – Tiny Tim
“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
“But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” – Charles Dickens
“May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, ‘God bless us, every one!'” – Charles Dickens