GCSE CHRISTMAS CAROL KEY QUOTES

“Bah! Humbug!” – Ebenezer Scrooge

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

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

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

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city ever knew.” – Narrator on Scrooge’s transformation

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” – Jacob Marley

“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’s nephew, Fred

“Pleasure and industry can coexist.” – Ghost of Christmas Past

“I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.” – Jacob Marley

“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.” – Ghost of Christmas Present

“I wear the chain I forged in life.” – Jacob Marley

“I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast!” – Bob Cratchit

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.” – Scrooge GOD I BELIEVE IN YOU QUOTES

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

“Business! Mankind was my business.” – Jacob Marley

“I will honour Christmas in my heart and keep it all the year.” – 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.” – Narrator

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

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

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city ever knew.” – Narrator

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” – Narrator

“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s-book, went home to bed.” – Narrator

“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Narrator on Scrooge’s kindness

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