ACC Revision Quotes

Quotes for A Christmas Carol for GCSE English Literature

Marley 1,1

Marley was dead to begin with

Scrooge 1,1

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

Scrooge 1,2

Hard and sharp as flint

Scrooge 1,3

Solitary as an oyster

Scrooge 1,4

I don't make myself merry at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry

Scrooge 1,5

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Scrooge 1,6

If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Marley 1,2

I wear the chain I forged in life

Christmas Past 2,1

From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light

Christmas Past 2,2

“Your lip is trempling,” said the Ghost. “And what is that upon you cheek?”

Scrooge 2,1

A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still

Belle 2,1

I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you

Scrooge 2,2

“Remove me” Scrooge exclaimed. “I cannot bear it”

Scrooge 3,1

Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before the spirit

Cratchits 3,1

They had smelled the goos and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table

Scrooge 3,2

No, no…Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared

Christmas Present 3,1

If he die, he better do it, and decrease the surplus population

Fred 3,1

I am sorry for him (…) Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always

Scrooge 3,3

Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart

Christmas Present 3,2

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both (…) They are Man's.

Scrooge 4,1

plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man

Scrooge 4,2

Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!

Scrooge 4,3

Are these shadows of the things that Will be, or are they the shadows of the things that May be only?

Scrooge 5,1

No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial…heavenly sky, sweet, fresh air

Scrooge 5,2

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

Scrooge 5,3

I don't know how long I have been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby

Scrooge 5,4

Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile

Scrooge 5,5

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him