CHRISTMAS CAROL STAVE 1 KEY QUOTES

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“Marley was dead, to begin with.” – Narrator

“I wear the chain I forged in life.” – Jacob Marley

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge. – Scrooge

“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star, which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?” – Scrooge

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley

“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.” – Scrooge

“His wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it.” – Gentleman asking for charity

“What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer?” – Scrooge

“His offenses carry their own punishment.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley

“God save you!” – Bob Cratchit

“He lived in an emotional world of his own.” – Narrator about Scrooge

“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “I wear the chain I forged in life.” – Marley’s Ghost

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” – Scrooge

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

“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something…” – Scrooge

“I’m quite a baby. Never mind. I don’t care. I’d rather be a baby.” – Scrooge

“Why, it’s impossible to carry that to Camden Town!” said Scrooge. – Scrooge

“It’s the finest turkey I ever saw.” – Bob Cratchit

“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – Scrooge

“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.” – Scrooge

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” – Narrator

“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” – Scrooge

“A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavor to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!” – Scrooge

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.” – Narrator about Scrooge

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” – Scrooge

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