A Christmas Carol

The best quotes from a Christmas Carol. Quotes from Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tin, Fred, Bob Cratchit and Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol is a Victorian novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1843. It tells the story of elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. These visits transform Scrooge into a kinder, gentler man.

A Christmas Carol

1. The first line of A Christmas Carol: "Marley was dead."






2. "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
3. "It is required of every man 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." - Jacob Marley
4. "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."
5. "No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused." - Jacob Marley
6. "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." - Ebenezer Scrooge
7. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough."
8. "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."
9. "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
10. "A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" - Ebenezer Scrooge
11. "He softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands."
12. "Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, 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." - Bob Cratchit
13. "You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
14. "He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten."






15. "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"
16. ″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘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!‘"
17. "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!"
18. "Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
19. "Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets."
20. "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."
21. "In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value"
22. The famous last words of the novel: "God bless us, Every one!" - Tiny Tim