A Christmas Carol Quotes

[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.

[from trailer]

[to the Ghost of Christmas Past]

Ebenezer Scrooge: Haunt me no longer!

[from trailer]

[soaring through the air past the moon]

Ebenezer Scrooge: Oh, my!

[From trailer]

[upon meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future]

Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.

[From trailer]

Ebenezer Scrooge: I'm light as a feather! Merry as a schoolboy!

[From trailer]

[catching himself laughing like the Ghost of Christmas Present]

Ebenezer Scrooge: I've heard that laugh before.

[resumes laughing]

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!

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]

Fred's Wife: [playing an animal guessing game] Is it a horse?

Fred: No.

Guest #3: A cow?

Fred: No.

Guest #4: A dog?

Fred: No.

Guest #5: An ass?

Fred: Well... yes, and no...

Fred's Wife: Oh, I got it, Fred! It's your Uncle Scrooge!

Fred: Yes!

[first lines]

Ebenezer Scrooge: [upon viewing Marley in casket] Yes, quite dead. As a doornail.

[last lines]

Tiny Tim: God bless us. Every one.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [Looking with horror upon the children representing Ignorance and Want] Have they no refuse, no resource?

Adult Ignorance: [Suddenly morphing into an adult wielding a knife, and echoing Scrooge's words from earlier] Are there no prisons?

Adult Want: [Suddenly morphing into an adult, and echoing Scrooge's words from earlier] Are there no workhouses?