KEY QUOTES FROM A CHRISTMAS CAROL STAVE 4

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.”

“I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”

(Marley’s Ghost)

“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.”

“But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”

(Marley’s Ghost)

“Yet do I fear him less than any man alive.”

(Scrooge, referring to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come)

“Spirit, leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”

“There may be something in that.”

(Scrooge’s response to seeing his own body)

“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”

“I am prepared to bear witness to the truth. And then let the shadows be dispelled!”

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

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.” FAMILY IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE QUOTES

“I never will desert you.”

(Scrooge, speaking to his bedposts)

“I am as giddy as a drunken man.”

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”

“If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

(Two businessmen, discussing the dead man’s fate)

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

“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something.”

“‘I will,’ said Scrooge. ‘But don’t be hard upon me! Don’t be flowery, Jacob! Pray!'”

(Scrooge, to Marley’s Ghost)

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

(Scrooge, discussing Tiny Tim)

“The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”