A Christmas Carol Key Quotations GCSE

Solitary as an

Solitary as an oyster

____ and _____ as flint

hard and sharp as flint

The ___ within him ____ his old features

the cold within him froze his old features

A ___ , ___ , ___ , ___, covetous old sinner

A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner.

Scrooge had a very small fire, but the ____ was so very ____

Scrooge had a small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller.

He was ____ in a. ___

He was all in a glow.

If they would rather ___. then they had better ___ and decrease the ____

If they would rather die then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

“are there no ____?” “and the ___union workhouses”

“Are there no prisons?’ “And the union workhouses?”

I can’t ____ to make ___ people ___

I can’t afford to make idle people merry

I wear the ____ I _____ in life

I wear the chain I forged in life

______ was my _____

Mankind was my business

“A _____, neglected by _____ , is ___ there still”

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

A _________ was reading near a _______

A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire

The ______ he gives is quite as great as if it ________

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

_______ was ______ upon the _____

Fuel was heaped upon the fire

____________ has displaced me a ________

Another idol has displaced me, a golden one

I have seen your __________ fall off one by one until the _________, _____ engrosses you

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

“Dressed out ______ in a ________ gown, but ____ in _____”

Dressed out but poorly in a a twice turned gown, but brave in ribbons.

Nobody said or _______ it was a ____ pudding for a ____ family. it would have been _______ to do so

Nobody said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so.

God _____! Every one!

God bless us! Everyone!

Bob held his _____________….. and dreaded that he might be ____________

Bob held his withered little hand and dreaded that he might be taken from him.

Spirit….tell me if _____________

Spirit….tell me if Tiny Tim will live

If _____ be like to _____, he had ______ and decrease the _______

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

I _____ to give him the _____ every year

I mean to give him the same chance every year.

This boy is ____. This girl is _____….but most of all ____ this ____

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want…..but most of all beware this boy.

COME BACK TO….

“are there no prisons?… are there no workhouses?”

The Phantom ____, ____, ____ approached

The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.

I ____ you more than any _____ I have seen

I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen

Plundered and beret , _____, ____, ____, was the body of man

Plundered and beret, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of man

“My ____,____ child”

“My little, little child”

I will honour _____ in my heart

I will honour Christmas in my heart

I will live in the _____, the _____ and the ______

I will live in the past, the present and the future

No fog, no mist; ____, _____ ,____,____,____

No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold.

“I am as ____ as a feather, I am as ___ as an _____, I am as merry as a _______

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as as an angle, I am as merry as a school-boy.

“It is a ______ he didn’t ______ his arm off

It. is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off

“I am about to _____ your salary!”

“I am about to raise your salary!”

“Make up the ____!”

“Make up the fires!”

“To Tiny Tim…he was a ________”

To Tiny Tim….he was a second father”

Dickens wrote ACC in

1843