STAVE 2 A CHRISTMAS CAROL QUOTES

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Fred about his modest Christmas celebration

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

“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.” – Ghost of Christmas Past

“You fear the world too much. All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach.” – Ghost of Christmas Past to Scrooge

“Light leaves the world; darkness takes its place… I hope to live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Past

“Spirit! This is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson.” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Present

“Who’s the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose.” – Scrooge about missing belongings

“He became his own image: his face, when he was touched by the hand of friendship, melted into tears.” – Narrator about Scrooge when seeing scenes from his past

“Your lip is trembling, and what is that upon your cheek? Come back with me, come back with me, and we’ll walk together.” – Ghost of Christmas Past to Scrooge

“The happiness he gives… is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Fred about his modest Christmas celebration

“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.” – Ghost of Christmas Past

“Spirit, glossy and glimmering still, let us see another Christmas.” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

“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?” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

“Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” – Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY QUOTES

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” – Scrooge

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.” – Scrooge on Christmas morning

“What’s today?” said Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes. “Today?” replied the boy. “Why, Christmas Day.”

“God bless us, every one!”- Tiny Tim

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

“I am about to raise your salary, and will endeavor to assist your struggling family.” – Scrooge to Bob Cratchit

“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding.” – Scrooge

“Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action.” – Narrator

“What’s to prevent me from adding to the surplus population?” – Scrooge’s “soliloquy”

“No, no, I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now.” – Scrooge after seeing his tombstone

“Uncle Scrooge has lost grace and favor with me.” – Scrooge’s niece, after refusing to wish him a Merry Christmas

“For the rest of his days he was as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew.” – Narrator about Scrooge’s transformation

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

“I am not the man I was.” – Scrooge after his transformation