A CHRISTMAS CAROL KEY QUOTES THEMES

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Christmas Spirit, Theme of Redemption and Transformation

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of Social Responsibility

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Narrator, Theme of Childlike Innocence and Wonder

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Narrator, Theme of Joy and Happiness

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard.” – Jacob Marley, Theme of Guilt and Regret

“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.” – Narrator, Theme of Balance and Harmony

“A small matter…to make these silly folks so full of gratitude!” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of the Power of a Small Act of Kindness

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim, Theme of Compassion and Empathy

“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change.” – Narrator, Theme of Death and Mortality

“Let me see some tenderness connected with a death, such as the death of this poor creature, and I would willingly have given away all my furniture.” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of Love and Sympathy

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of the Importance of Seizing Opportunities QUOTES ABOUT YOUR BOYFRIEND BEING YOUR BEST FRIEND

“Your nephew’s a fool, and if I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding.” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of the Importance of Family and Relationships

“His wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it.” – Fred, Theme of the Corrosive Nature of Greed

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset” – Narrator, Theme of Overcoming Ridicule and Critics

“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Fred, Theme of True Value of Wealth and Happiness

“He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha! ‘Spirit,’ said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot, ‘I see, I see.'” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Theme of the Consequences of One’s Actions

“Your reclamation, then. Take heed!” – Ghost of Jacob Marley, Theme of Redemption and Second Chances

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.” – Narrator, Theme of the Power of Redemption and Changed Lives

“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. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!” – Ebenezer Scrooge, Theme of Personal Transformation and Enlightenment

“The interest he had in the little boy, and his pleasure in the boy’s growth, had been gradually increasing.” – Narrator, Theme of the Healing Power of Love

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.” – Narrator, Theme of the Power of Change and Redemption.