Best Quotes From A Christmas Carol
"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 it cost a fortune."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
A Christmas Carol Quotes
"I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "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."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"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."
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"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 (A Christmas Carol)
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
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