a christmas carol Flashcards
(20 cards)
stave 1 quotes
“hard and sharp as flint”
stave 1 quotes
“solitary as an oyster”
stave 1 quotes
“Bah! Humbug!”
stave 1 quotes
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides-excuse me-I don’t know that.”
stave 2 quotes
“I am a mortal, and liable to fall.”
stave 2 quotes
“Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to give him something: that’s all.”
stave 2 quotes
“No,[…] no. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all.”
stave 2 quotes
“Spirit! Show me no more. Conduct me home! Why do you delight to torture me!”
stave 3 quotes
“Spirit, conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learned a lesson which is working now. Tonight if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”
stave 3 quotes
“Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
stave 3 quotes
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”
“No, no, […] Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”
“If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
stave 3 quotes
“Have they no refuge or resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
stave 4 quotes
“I fear you more than any spectre i have seen.”
stave 4 quotes
“Spirit! he said, this is a fearful place”.
stave 4 quotes
“Am I the man who lay upon the bed?”
stave 4 quotes
“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.”
stave 5 quotes
“They are not torn down, […] They are not torn down, rings and all.”
stave 5 quotes
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
stave 5 quotes
“Will you let me in, Fred?”
stave 5 quotes
“-and therefore I am about to raise your salary!”
