STAVE 1
● About Scrooge: “As solitary as an oyster.”
● “External heat and cold had little influence on
Scrooge.”
● “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had
better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
● “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
● Marley’s Ghost: “Mankind was my business.”
● Marley’s Ghost: “I am here to-night to warn you, that
you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate.”
STAVE 2
● “There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my
door last night. I should have given him something:
that’s all.”
● About the Fezziwig family: “…shaking hands with
every person individually as he or she went out,
wishing him or her a Merry Christmas.”
● Scrooge about Mr Fezziwig: “The happiness he gives,
is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”
● Belle to Scrooge: “Another idol has displaced me.”
● Belle about Scrooge: “I have seen your nobler
aspirations fall off one by one, until the master
passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
● Belle’s husband to Belle about Scrooge: “Quite alone
in the world, I do believe.”
STAVE 3
● “There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or
the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness
abroad.”
● About the Ghost of Christmas Present: “Sprinkled
incense on their dinners from his torch.”
● About the Cratchit’s goose: “a feathered
phenomenon.”
● “There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t
believe there ever was such a goose cooked.”
● About Tiny Tim: “If these shadows remain unaltered
by the Future, the child will die.”
● About Scrooge: “As solitary as an oyster.”
● “External heat and cold had little influence on
Scrooge.”
● “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had
better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
● “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
● Marley’s Ghost: “Mankind was my business.”
● Marley’s Ghost: “I am here to-night to warn you, that
you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate.”
STAVE 2
● “There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my
door last night. I should have given him something:
that’s all.”
● About the Fezziwig family: “…shaking hands with
every person individually as he or she went out,
wishing him or her a Merry Christmas.”
● Scrooge about Mr Fezziwig: “The happiness he gives,
is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”
● Belle to Scrooge: “Another idol has displaced me.”
● Belle about Scrooge: “I have seen your nobler
aspirations fall off one by one, until the master
passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
● Belle’s husband to Belle about Scrooge: “Quite alone
in the world, I do believe.”
STAVE 3
● “There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or
the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness
abroad.”
● About the Ghost of Christmas Present: “Sprinkled
incense on their dinners from his torch.”
● About the Cratchit’s goose: “a feathered
phenomenon.”
● “There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t
believe there ever was such a goose cooked.”
● About Tiny Tim: “If these shadows remain unaltered
by the Future, the child will die.”
