The Man Who Invented Christmas Quotes

  • Mr. John Dickens: The mere sight of cows causes her actual, physical pain.

  • Scrooge: Humbug!

  • Charles Dickens: No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.

  • Tara: [after Dickens reads the part where Tiny Tim dies] NO!

    Scrooge: Rude.

    Tara: Is Tiny Tim dead?

    Scrooge: Well, of course he is, imbecile.

    Charles Dickens: He was very ill.

    Scrooge: You can't save every child in London.

    Charles Dickens: And the family has no money for a doctor.

    Tara: Then Scrooge must save him!

    Scrooge: ME?

    Scrooge: He wouldn't...

    Tara: WHY?

    Charles Dickens: Well, he's too selfish.

    Tara: He can change, there's good in him, somewhere. I know it.

    Scrooge: People don't change.

    Charles Dickens: He's been this way, for a long time. I'm not sure he can change.

    Tara: Of course he can, he's not a monster.

    Scrooge: I thought this was a ghost story, not a fairy tale.

    Tara: He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die, Mr. Dickens. He has a heart, doesn't he? It would be too wicked, even for him.

  • Charles Dickens: [In the Garrick Club] Why do we come here?

    John Forster: Hmmm?

    Charles Dickens: The service is terrible. The food is inedible. The fees keep going up. It's full of...

    [the waiter arrives, a doddering old gentleman]

    Charles Dickens: .

  • Mrs. Dickens: No one is useless in this world...

    Charles Dickens: ...who lightens the burden of another - I know.

    Mrs. Dickens: For all his faults, you won't find a kinder man.

    Charles Dickens: Hmmm. How long he is growing up to be one.

  • Mr. John Dickens: We must not disturb the poet when the divine frenzy is upon him.

  • Charles Dickens: Oh, skittleshins to Mrs., Fisk.

Extended Reading
  • Athena 2022-06-05 17:10:48

    It’s a standard Christmas costume drama, but I’ve never bought this kind of story that expresses the author’s creative process. It feels like it’s just made up. In addition, when will there be a costume drama that really shows the air pollution in London in the 19th century? This London in the movie is too bright and sunny, and everyone feels overdressed.

  • Ellen 2022-06-05 23:43:04

    I watched the preview. There seemed to be kind people, film critics or book fans, except for some places that I didn’t understand clearly or did not understand, they were all very good. The big cousin played that kind of crazy feeling just right, he was crazy about the role, not the gods.