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‘A Christmas Carol’

“it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day who made lame beggars

walk and blind men see”Tiny Tim, Stave 3


“yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling,

wolfish”Ignorance and Want, Stave 3


“stale and shrivelled hand”

Ignorance and Want, Stave 3


“They are man’s … Beware them both”



“Deny it! … Slander those who tell it ye”



“like that of age had pinched and

twisted them”Ignorance and Want, Stave 3


“The spirits of all Three shall strive

within me.”Scrooge, Stave 5


“He was so fluttered and so glowing with

his good intentions…”

Scrooge, Stave 5


“He had been sobbing violently in his conflict

with the Spirit”Scrooge, Stave 5


“laughing and crying in the same breath”

Scrooge, Stave 5


“I am as light as a feather”

Scrooge, Stave 5


“I am as happy as an angel”

Scrooge, Stave 5


“I am as merry as a schoolboy”Scrooge, Stave 5


“I am as giddy as a drunken man”

Scrooge, Stave 5


“The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently

approached”The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4


“it seemed to scatter gloom and

mystery”The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4


“it was tall and statley”

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4


“the Spirit neither spoke nor moved”

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4


“behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him”The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4


“returned the woman coolly”

Mrs Dilber, Stave 4


“look through that shirt until your eyes ached;

but you wont find a hole”

Mrs Dilber, Stave 4


“they’d have wasted it, if it

hadn’t been for me.”

Mrs Dilber, Stave 4


“Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I

took it off again”Mrs Dilber, Stave 4


“He frightened every one away from him when he was

alive, to profit us when he was dead. Ha, ha, ha!”

Mrs Dilber, Stave 4


“because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to

remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk,

and blind men see”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so

much”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“went to fetch the goose, with which they soon

returned in high procession”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn,

greats joints of meat …”The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3


“deep green robe … its feet …bare … and on its head it

wore … a holly wreath”The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3


“there are some upon this earth of yours … who claim to know

us, and who do their deeds …in our name, who are as strange to

us …”The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3


“he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so

much”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Eked out by apple sauce

and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for

the whole family”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Bob held his withered little hand … as if he loved the child … dreaded that he might be taken from

him”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit”

The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the

Feast!”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“I see a vacant seat …if these shadows remain

unaltered”The Cratchits, Stave 3


“Marley was dead, to begin with.”

Scrooge, Stave 1


“Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name”

Scrooge, Stave 1


“Hard and sharp as flint”

Scrooge, Stave 1


“solitary as an oyster”Scrooge, Stave 1


“The cold within him froze his old

features”Scrooge, Stave 1


“He didn’t thaw one degree at

Christmas”Scrooge, Stave 1


“What right do you have to be merry?

You're poor enough.”Scrooge, Stave 1


“Every idiot who goes around with “Merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled in his own

pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

Scrooge, Stave 1


“If they would rather die …they had better do

it and decrease the surplus population.”

Scrooge, Stave 1


“the fog and darkness thickened so … foggier

… and colder”Scrooge, Stave 1


“ghostly spectacles turned upon its ghostly

forehead”Marley, Stave 1


“had a dismal light”

Marley, Stave 1


“the chain he drew …was made of cash-boxes, keys,

padlocks …wrought in steel”

Marley, Stave 1


“I wear the chain I forged in life”

Marley, Stave 1


“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of

remorse.”Marley, Stave 1


“it was a strange figure – like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old

man.”The Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave 2


“the crown of its head sprang a bright jet of

light”The Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave 2


“Your lip is trembling”

The Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave 2


“A solitary child, neglected by his

friends, is left there still.”

The Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave 2


“Another idol has displaced me … a

golden one.”

Belle, Stave 2


“Spirit! … show me no more! … why do you

delight to torture me?”

Scrooge, Stave 2


“His heart and soul were in the scene,

and with his former self.”

Scrooge seeing Fezziwig, Stave 2

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