A Christmas Carol quotes

"God bless us every one!"

— Tiny Tim · Stave Three: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

"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!"

— the Ghost · Stave One: MARLEY'S GHOST

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.

— Spoken by a character · Stave Four: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

"Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!"

— Scrooge · Stave One: MARLEY'S GHOST

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.

Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh, such was I!

— Spoken by a character · Stave One: MARLEY'S GHOST

After awhile they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

"You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?"

— Spoken by a character · Stave Two: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

— Spoken by a character · Stave Four: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

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.

— Spoken by a character · Stave Five: THE END OF IT