FAMILY A CHRISTMAS CAROL QUOTES

“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; 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

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

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Charles Dickens

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

“I have always thought of Christmas time…as the only time when people open their hearts freely.” – Fred, Scrooge’s nephew

“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Fred, speaking about his uncle, Scrooge

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more.” – Charles Dickens

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“Scrooge tremblingly replies, ‘I do; I must; but why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?'” – Charles Dickens

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself always.” – Bob Cratchit, speaking about Scrooge A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND QUOTES

“I have love in my heart, and I’m spreading it around.” – Fred

“I don’t deserve to be so happy…but I can’t help it.” – Bob Cratchit

“Scrooge turned upon the Ghost, and seeing that it looked upon him with a face, in which in some strange way there were fragments of his own, cried in a pang of childish delight, ‘Why? It’s impossible!'” – Charles Dickens

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

“He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well.” – Charles Dickens

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“The dark shadow was removed, and he passed safely through the winter’s morning light.” – Charles Dickens

“Whatever good you would like to do, you can do it now.” – Ghost of Christmas Present

“A cheerful voice was speaking grandmotherly words of comfort.” – Charles Dickens

“I am as happy as an angel, I am merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunk man!” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I am quite a baby in my troubles.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.” – Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

“But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; 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