Top 99 Quotes Listicle

Famous Quotes From A Christmas Carol:

1. “Bah! Humbug!” – Ebenezer Scrooge
2. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
3. “God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim
4. “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 humor.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
5. “I wear the chain I forged in life.” – Jacob Marley
6. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
7. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” – Narrator
8. “The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Fred
9. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world!” – Ebenezer Scrooge
10. “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.” – Narrator
11. “It’s Christmas Day! I haven’t missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
12. “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
13. “…he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” – Narrator
14. “I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. Merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” – Ebenezer Scrooge
15. “I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
16. “The only time you ever see the poor, the meek, and the humble in this world, is when they are above it.” – Narrator
17. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
18. “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
19. “The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.” – Narrator
20. “It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley
21. “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” – Ghost of Jacob Marley
22. “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?” – Ebenezer Scrooge
23. “I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. “Look upon me!” – Ghost of Christmas Present
24. “I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby.” – Tiny Tim
25. “And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!” – Narrator
26. “You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.” – Ghost of Jacob Marley
27. “I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!” – Bob Cratchit
28. “I am about to raise your salary.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
29. “I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
30. “I am not the man I was.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
31. “I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.” – William Lloyd Garrison (quoted by Ebenezer Scrooge)
32. “It is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.” – Narrator
33. “I don’t know what day of the month it is!” said Scrooge. “I don’t know how long I’ve been among the Spirits. I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby. Never mind. I don’t care. I’d rather be a baby.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
34. “I have come to see you, Ebenezer.” – Ghost of Christmas Past
35. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
36. “I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
37. “A small matter,” said the Ghost, “to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.” – Ghost of Christmas Present
38. “I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
39. “What idol has displaced you?” he rejoined. “A golden one.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
40. “I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So a Merry Christmas, uncle!” – Fred
41. “I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.” – Ghost of Christmas Past
42. “I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?” – Ebenezer Scrooge
43. “It’s not my business,” Scrooge returned. “It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
44. “The school is not quite deserted,” said the Ghost. “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.” – Ghost of Christmas Present
45. “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” – Ebenezer Scrooge
46. “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” – Narrator
47. “I am about to raise your salary, Bob.” – Ebene