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Quotes by Scrooge

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens
scrooge three past
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. by Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Dickens
scrooge darkness winter

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Charles Dickens
scrooge beef may
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrea... by Charles Dickens

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Charles Dickens
christmas-carol scrooge population

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens
scrooge hallucinations believe

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Charles Dickens
scrooge men people
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolen... by Charles Dickens

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Charles Dickens
scrooge charity mercy

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Charles Dickens
scrooge departed men

Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present." "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.

Jennifer Estep
scrooge generosity voice

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

Kevin McCloud
scrooge car lists

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Margaret Atwood
scrooge kind monsters

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Margaret Atwood
scrooge views cards

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

Roger Rosenblatt
scrooge population uncles

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Stephen King
scrooge saws son
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