A CHRISTMAS CAROL IMPORTANT QUOTES GCSE

“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.” – Marley’s Ghost

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.” – Marley’s Ghost

“I see a vacant seat, in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Marley’s Ghost

“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” – Fred, Scrooge’s nephew

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Fezziwig

“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.” – Scrooge

“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 humor.” – Scrooge

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

“I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.” – Scrooge

“To do a little good is what it’s about.” – Fred ONE SMILE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD QUOTE

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” – Scrooge

“Come in, – come in! and know me better, man!” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.” – Scrooge

“Much good it has ever done you. Much good it ever will do you!” – Scrooge

“I have been blind, and yet I see.” – Scrooge

“I’ll keep it as a reminder of my own past and the mistakes I made, so that I never repeat them again.” – Belle

“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.” – Scrooge

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Scrooge

“It is required of every man, that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen…and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.” – Marley’s Ghost

“When men and women forget to judge by the 100-of-a-second rule, when the integrity ceases to be demanded by the eye of the beholder, and fame and fortune become the sole criterion, then all society is lost.” – Narrator