“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“There's another fellow, my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam.”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“I don't know what day of the month it is! 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. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Now, I'll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore I am about to raise your salary!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“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 i…”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“There's the saucepan that the gruel was in! There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered! There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat! There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits! It's all right, it's all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask, but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Now, I'll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore, I am about to raise your salary!…A merry Christmas, Bob! A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your str…”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Spirit! Hear me! 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?”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me.”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“It's not my business. It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us. Is that so, Spirit?”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Because, a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com
“Three thousand feet up. Up the side of Mt. Crumpit. He rode with his load to the tip-top to dump it.”— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Narrator (voice), Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“The whipperwinds whipped high above the Who town.”— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Narrator (voice), Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com