A christmas carol quotes

Quotes for Isolation Stave one

• ‘sole friend, and sole mourner’

• ‘nobody lived in it but Scrooge’

• ‘as sharp as a flint … as solitary as an oyster’

Quotes for Isolation Stave two (childhood)

• ‘wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be’

• ‘solitary child was left here all alone…he did come for the first time’

Quotes for Isolation Stave three (said by Scrooge’s niece)

‘‘I think he loses a very good dinner’

Quotes for Isolation Stave four (Scrooge’s grave)

‘overrun by grass and weeds’

Quotes for Greed and money Stave one

• ‘he was a tight-fisted hand’

• ‘it looked like one coal’

• ‘You’ll want all day to-morrow I suppose?’

Quotes for Greed and money Stave two (Belle tells Scrooge)

• ‘Another idol has displaced me’ ‘A golden one’

• ‘Gain engrosses you’

Quotes for Greed and money Stave three

• ‘His wealth is no use to him. He don’t do any good with it’

Quotes for Greed and money Stave four

• ‘What has he done with his money’

• ‘I don’t mind going if lunch is provided’

• ‘Yes, I do…Why not?’

Quotes for Poverty Stave one

• ‘If they would rather die …they better do it and decrease the surplus population’

Quotes for Poverty Stave three (Cratchits)

• ‘We’d a deal of work to finish up last night’

• ‘ a custard cup without a handle’ that worked ‘as well as golden goblets would’ve done’

• ‘withered little hands’

• ‘The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter’s being a man of business’

• ‘she meant to lie a-bed tomorrow’

Quotes for Poverty Stave four

• 'whole quarter reeked with crime’

• ‘a kind of serious delight which he felt ashamed’

• ‘You were born to make your fortune’

Quotes for Change/Redemption Stave one (said by Marley’s ghost)

• ‘The dealing of my trade were a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’

Quotes for Change/Redemption Stave two

• ‘ a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character’

• ‘I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now’

Quotes for Change/Redemption Stave three

• ‘I learnt a lesson which is working now…if you aught to teach me let me profit by it’

• ‘an interest he has never felt before’

• ‘but they all played and so did Scrooge’

Quotes for Change/Redemption Stave four

‘he resolved to treasure up every word he heard’

‘hoped he saw his new-born resolutions’

Quotes for Change/Redemption Stave five

• ‘The Spirit of all Three shall strive within me’

• ‘I am as light as a feather’

• ‘He shan’t know who sends it’

• ‘He was home in five minutes’

• Bob! Make up the fires’

• ‘He became as good a friend…as good a man…in the good old world’

Quotes for Christmas Stave one (said by Fred)

• ‘as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’

• ‘it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good’

Quotes for Christmas Stave two

• ‘What was merry Christmas to Scrooge?…What good had it ever done to him?’

Quotes for Christmas Stave three

• ‘jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn’

• ‘More than eighteen hundred’

• ‘all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day’

• ‘he could accommodate himself to any place with ease’

• ‘to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see’

Quotes for Christmas Stave five

• ‘Christmas time be praised for this!’

Quotes for family Stave 2

• ‘a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life’

Stave 3 Family

‘while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.’

Stave 4 family (Scrooge’s body)

‘plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for’

Stave 4 family (death of tiny tim)

‘Quiet. Very quiet.’

Stave 5 family Scrooge’s laugh

‘The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!’

Stave 5 family (Scrooge & Tiny Tims relationship)

‘a second father’

Stave 1 supernatural (Marley’s ghost)

• ‘I wear the chains I forged in life’

Stave 3 supernatural

• ‘Yellow meagre ragged scowling wolfish’

• ‘Where angels might have sat enthroned devils lurked’

• ‘This boy is ignorance. This girl is want’

Stave 4 supernatural (ghost of xmas future)

‘slowly, gravely, silently’

Stave 5 supernatural (Scrooge’s promise)

‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future’