Quotes by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy comman — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
God bless us, every one! — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.Business!' — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,'' returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What t — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is thy refuge, even the most high they habitation. There shall be no evil before — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I mad — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware t — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his dau — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the neph — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol