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A Christmas Carol Quotes

“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, spirits
“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, perseverance, life path
“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.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Happy, Unhappy
“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghost
“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.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, bedlam
“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?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, strange, Foot, claw
“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 struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, charity, salary
“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Business, Meddling
“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Raise, salary
“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?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Beyond All Hope
“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?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Future, Past
“Spirit! Remove me from this place.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts
“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!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Digestive Problems
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Eugenics
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Poverty, merry
“Bah! Humbug!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas
“[to Marley's ghost] There's more gravy about you than grave.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Ghost, gravy, grave
“[catching Bob applauding to Fred's speech] Let me hear one word out of you, Cratchit, and you can keep Christmas by losing your position!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Threat, You're Fired
“I'm light as a feather! Merry as a schoolboy!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: light as a feather, merry
“[upon viewing Marley in casket] Yes, quite dead. As a doornail.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: dead as a doornail
“Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Ghost, Fear
“Fred: Don't be cross, Uncle!

Ebenezer Scrooge: What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! 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; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!

Fred: Uncle!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.

Fred: But you don't keep it!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!

Fred: There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, 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! [Cratchit applauds]”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah Humbug, Merry Christmas, poor, rich
“Fred: A Merry Christmas to you, uncle!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Fred: What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough.

Ebenezer Scrooge: BAH! Humbug!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah Humbug, Merry Christmas, poor, rich
“[from trailer]
Ebenezer Scrooge: What do you want with me?

Jacob Marley: You will be haunted by three spirits.

Ebenezer Scrooge: I'd rather not.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Haunted, Fear
“Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I love Christmas!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Christmas Movies
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