GCSE English Literature | A Christmas Carol | Key Quotes – Flashcards
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Oh! but he was a
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tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! (Stave 1)
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I wear the chain
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I forged in life (Stave 1)
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There are many things from which I might have derived good by which
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I have not profited (Stave 1)
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"It was made of
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cashboxes, keys, padlocks (Stave 1)
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As solitary as an
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oyster (Stave 1)
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Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas,' on his lips,
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should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. (Stave 1)
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What reason have you to be merry?
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You're poor enough (Stave 1)
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No warmth could warm,
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nor wintry weather chill him (Stave 1)
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If they had rather die...
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they had better do it and decrease the surplus population (Stave 1)
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Are there no
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prisons? (Stave 1)
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Scrooge took his
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melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern (Stave 1)
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Mankind was
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my business (Stave 1)
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Covetous old
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sinner! (Stave 1)
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darkness is cheap, and
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Scrooge liked it (Stave 1)
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A solitary child, neglected
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by his friends, is left there still (Stave 1)
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A small matter...
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to make these silly folks so full of gratitude (Stave 2)
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He has the power to
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render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome (Stave 2)
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You fear the world
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too much (Stave 2)
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What idol has displaced you?
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A golden one (Stave 2)
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I should like to have
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given him something: that's all (Stave 2)
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I have seen your nobler aspirations
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fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not? (Stave 2)
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Quite alone
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in the world (Stave 2)
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He hoped the people saw him in church, because he was a cripple,
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and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see (Stave 3)
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Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit,
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and was overcome with penitence and grief (Stave 3)
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If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future,
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the child will die (Stave 3)
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Will you decide what men shall live,
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what men shall die? (Stave 3)
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His offences carry
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their own punishment (Stave 3)
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This boy is Ignorance.
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This girl is Want. Beware them both (Stave 3)
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He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive,
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to profit us when he was dead! (Stave 4)
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The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event,
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was one of pleasure (Stave 4)
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Bob told them of the extraordinary
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kindness of Mr. Scrooge's nephew (Stave 4)
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I am not
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the man I was (Stave 4)
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I will honour Christmas
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in my heart, and try to keep it all the year (Stave 4)
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Scrooge was better
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than his word (Stave 5)
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to Tiny Tim, who did not die,
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he was a second father (Stave 5)
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And it was always said of him,
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that he knew how to keep Christmas well (Stave 5)
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Not a
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farthing less (Stave 5)
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(Fezziwig) a
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comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice
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Nothing between a
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baby and a rhinoceros would have astonished him very much (Stave 3)
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Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf
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pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust! (Stave 3)
