what are some of Scrooge's quotes?

Question

maybe other than bah humbug

Answer 1

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Answer 2

Perhaps the second most famous quote from A Christmas Carol didn't come from Scrooge... "Bah, Humbug" being the most famous.

Tiny Tim said, "God bless us, everyone."

Answer 3

Here are some:

1. I am a mortal, and liable to fall.
2. Before I draw nearer to that stone, tell me! Are these the shadows of things that must be, or are they the shadows of things that MIGHT be?
3. I'm too old and beyond hope! Go and redeem some younger, more promising creature, and leave me to keep Christmas in my own way!
4. Bob, I haven't taken leave of my senses. I've come to them.
5. I am standing in the presence of the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come? And you're going to show me the shadows of things that have not yet happened but will happen? Spirit of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have met tonight! But even in my fear, I must say that I am too old! I cannot change! I cannot! It's not that I'm inpenitent, it's just... Wouldn't it be better if I just went home to bed?
6. I don't deserve to be so happy.
7. I must... I must stand on my head!

Answer 4

"Bah, Humbug" Sorry, but it is Christmas.

Answer 5

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

To Marley's Ghost: " You may be a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese. Yes. There's more gravy than of grave about you!"

Answer 6

You should be boiled in your own pudding and a stake of holly run
through your own heart.

Answer 7

"If they are going to die they best do it and decrease the surplus population."

Answer 8

no, say it isn't so is there any way that this future can be altered

Answer 9

Portly Gentleman: At this festive time of year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
Ebenezer: Why?

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Ebenezer: What is your business here?
Spirit of Christmas Past: Your welfare.
Ebenezer: My welfare?
Spirit of Christmas Past: Your reclamation, then. Take heed, rise, and walk with me.

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Ebenezer: Through the window?
Spirit of Christmas Past: Are you afraid?
Ebenezer: Well... I am a mortal, and liable to fall.
Spirit of Christmas Past: Bear but a touch of my hand, and you will be upheld in more than this.

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Bob Cratchit: Mr. Scrooge?
Ebenezer: I'm busy.
Bob Cratchit: Well, it's about Mr. Marley, sir! He's dying!
Ebenezer: Well, what do you want me to do about it? If he's dying, he's dying.

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Ebenezer: Who are you?
Jacob Marley: Ask me who I was.
Ebenezer: Well all right! Who WERE you then?
Jacob Marley: In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marley.
Ebenezer: Well, in that case, CAN you sit down?
Jacob Marley: I can.

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Ebenezer: You see that toothpick?
Jacob Marley: I do.
Ebenezer: You're not even looking at it!
Jacob Marley: Yet I see it, notwithstanding.
Ebenezer: Well, then, I'll just swallow this and be tortured by a legion of hobgoblins, all of my own creation! It's all HUMBUG, I tell you!

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Ebenezer: But it was only that you were an honest man of business!
Jacob Marley: BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business!

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Mrs. Dilber: [of Jacob Marley] Is he dead?
Ebenezer: Yes.
Mrs. Dilber: [to the undertaker] It's just as you said!
The Undertaker: I always know.

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Ebenezer: Who is that? The doctor?
Mrs. Dilber: No, the undertaker.
Ebenezer: You don't believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?
The Undertaker: Ours is a very competitive business, sir.

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Ebenezer: [to the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come] Before I draw nearer to that stone, tell me! Are these the shadows of things that must be, or are they the shadows of things that MIGHT be?

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Mrs. Dilber: Are you all right, Mr. Scrooge?
Ebenezer: [ecstatic] I... I don't know. I don't know anything. I never did know anything.
[starts laughing]
Ebenezer: But now I KNOW that I don't know anything!

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Mrs. Dilber: A guinea? For me? What for?
Ebenezer: I'll give you a guess!
Mrs. Dilber: [pause] To keep me mouth shut?

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Ebenezer: [to himself, laughing] A merry Christmas, Ebenezer! You old HUMBUG! Oh, and a happy new year! As if you deserved it!
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Spirit of Christmas Present: So! Is your heart still unmoved towards us, then?
Ebenezer: I'm too old and beyond hope! Go and redeem some younger, more promising creature, and leave me to keep Christmas in my own way!
Spirit of Christmas Present: Mortal! We Spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole three-hundred and sixty-five. So is it true of the Child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men's hearts one day of the year, but in all days of the year. You have chosen not to seek Him in your heart. Therefore, you will come with me and seek Him in the hearts of men of good will.

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Ebenezer: Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
Spirit of Christmas Past: I am.
Ebenezer: Who and what are you?
Spirit of Christmas Past: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Ebenezer: Long past?
Spirit of Christmas Past: No, your past.

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Ebenezer: Through the window?
Spirit of Christmas Past: Are you afraid?
Ebenezer: But I - I am a mortal, and liable to fall!
Spirit of Christmas Past: Bear but a touch of my hand, and you shall be upheld in more than this.
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Ebenezer: [to Fred's wife] Can you ever forgive a pig-headed old fool without eyes to see nor ears to hear all these years?

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Bob Cratchit: It's about Mr. Marley. He's dying, sir.
Ebenezer: Well, what can I do about it. If he's dying, he's dying.

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Ebenezer: I suppose you'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow as usual.
Bob Cratchit: If quite convenient, sir.
Ebenezer: Every Christmas you say the same thing. And every Christmas it's just as inconvenient as the Christmas before. Good night.

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Ebenezer: Bob, I haven't taken leave of my senses. I've come to them.

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Ebenezer: What do you want with me?
Jacob Marley: Much.

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Ebenezer: You see that toothpick?
Jacob Marley: I do.
Ebenezer: You're not looking at it!
Jacob Marley: But I see it, notwithstanding.
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Jacob Marley: In life, my spirit never rose beyond the limits of our money-changing holes! Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace, incessant torture and remorse!
Ebenezer: But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob!
Jacob Marley: BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business! And it is at this time of the rolling year that I suffer most!

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Jacob Marley: Look to see me no more. But look here, that you may remember for your own sake what has passed between us!
Ebenezer: Why do they lament?
Jacob Marley: They seek to interfere for good in human measures, and have lost their power forever.
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Ebenezer: [to the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come] I am standing in the presence of the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come? And you're going to show me the shadows of things that have not yet happened but will happen? Spirit of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have met tonight! But even in my fear, I must say that I am too old! I cannot change! I cannot! It's not that I'm inpenitent, it's just... Wouldn't it be better if I just went home to bed?
[pause]
Ebenezer: No? Well, very well. Lead on.

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Spirit of Christmas Present: My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I've shown you of the good in most men's hearts?
Ebenezer: I don't know. I don't know if I can change!
Spirit of Christmas Present: If it's too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!
[opens his robe, revealing two starving children]
Ebenezer: [shocked] Spirit, are these your children?
Spirit of Christmas Present: They are Man's. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!
Ebenezer: But have they no refuge?
Spirit of Christmas Present: [quoting Scrooge] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

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Spirit of Christmas Past: Your sister was always a delicate creature, of whom a breath might have withered, but she had a large heart.
Ebenezer: She had.
Spirit of Christmas Past: She married and had, I think children.
Ebenezer: A boy.
Spirit of Christmas Past: Your nephew. She died giving him life, just as your mother died giving you life, something your father never forgave you for, as if it had been your fault.
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Ebenezer: [at a homeless shelter where Alice is working] Spirit, are these people real, or are they shadows?
Spirit of Christmas Present: They are real. We are the shadows.
Ebenezer: Both of us?
Spirit of Christmas Present: Did you not cut yourself off from you fellow man when you lost the love of that delicate creature?

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Ebenezer: [as Marley lies on his death bed] Well, Jacob! They've seen to you properly, have they? Last rites and such?
[Marley nods]
Ebenezer: There's nothing more they can do?
[Marley nods again]
Ebenezer: Oh? What, particularly?
Jacob Marley: [rasping] While... there's still time...
Ebenezer: Time? Time for what, Jacob?
Jacob Marley: [rasping] I was wrong... wrong.
Ebenezer: Well, we can't be right all the time now, can we? Nobody's perfect. You mustn't berate yourself, Jacob. You've been no worse than the next man. All the better, because of it.
Jacob Marley: [rasping] Save... yourself.
Ebenezer: Save myself? Save myself from what?
[Marley breathes his last]
Ebenezer: Speak...!
[pauses as he realizes Marley is dead]

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Ebenezer: [to Bob Cratchit] Well, my friend, I'm not going to beat around the bush. I'm simply not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. Which leaves me no choice, but to raise your salary.
[starts laughing hysterically]
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Ebenezer: Waiter! More bread.
Waiter: Ha'penny extra, sir.
Ebenezer: [pauses] No more bread.

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Ebenezer: [Giggling] No. Mrs. Dilber - I'm not mad.
[He ruffles his hair so that it looks wild]
Ebenezer: Even if I look it!

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Spirit of Christmas Present: You've never seen the like of me before, have you?
Ebenezer: Never, and I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed.

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Ebenezer: Go, and redeem some other promising young creature, but leave me to keep Christmas in my own way.
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Ebenezer: [grumpily] I don't deserve to be so happy.
[starts laughing uncontrollably again]
Ebenezer: I can't help it!

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Ebenezer: [ecstatic having been given a second chance] I must... I must stand on my head!


Hope I was helpful!

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