Scrooge Quotes

• If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

  Charles Dickens

  Population, Christmas Carol, Decrease

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

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• every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Merry Christmas, History

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• 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

  Philosophical, Heart, Past

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Darkness

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.22

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• 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. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

  Charles Dickens

  New Year, School, Angel

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, People, Enough

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.22, Penguin

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• External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Fall, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.3

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• Out upon merry Christmas! 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...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Three, Spirit

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Mean, Merry Christmas

  Charles Dickens (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - A Christmas Carol”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Mercy, Forbearance

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

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• Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

  Margaret Atwood

  Monsters, Kind, Extremes

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July, 1997.

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• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Happy Holidays, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  Charles Dickens

  Beef, May, Potatoes

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Girl, Father

  Oldiees Publishing, Charles Dickens (2014). “A Christmas Carol - NOVEL & MOVIE EDITION”, p.34, Oldiees Publishing

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• And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Believe, Gold

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

  Charles Dickens

  Doors, Hands, Names

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Departed, Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.90

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• Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love

  James E. Faust

  Compassion, Hard Times, Self

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• I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.

  Jim Carrey

  Hate, Dark, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Past, Pussy

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". TV Special, July 10, 1999.

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• He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Laughter, People

  Charles Dickens (2004). “A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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