KEY QUOTES FOR EACH CHARACTER IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Ebenezer Scrooge: “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Bob Cratchit: “But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”

Jacob Marley: “I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will.”

Tiny Tim: “God bless us, every one!”

Ghost of Christmas Past: “These are the shadows of the things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me!”

Fred: “I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”

Fezziwig: “Yo ho, my boys! No more work tonight! Christmas Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer!”

Belle: “Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry.”

Ghost of Christmas Present: “I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!”

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: “Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be only?”

Mrs. Cratchit: “I’ll drink to his health for your sake and the day’s, but not for his. Long life to him!”

Old Joe: “What odds then? What odds, Mrs. Dilber? Dear, dear, dear!”

Peter Cratchit: “Believe me, my dear, I wish I could, but I have not got the power. Besides, it would be such a shame to disappoint Tiny Tim.” MISSING HOME QUOTES IN URDU

Fan (Scrooge’s sister): “Oh, I have come to bring you home, dear brother. To bring you home, home, home!”

Ignorance: “Will they rather die?”

Want: “Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.”

Ghost of Marley (to Scrooge): “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”

Topper: “I’d give a thousand pounds to be able to do it.”

(Regarding dancing.)

Mrs. Fezziwig: “Your poor father went the same way and had dances too.”

Mr. Fezziwig: “Yo ho, my boys! No more work to-night! Christmas Eve, Dick!”

Dick Wilkins: “There’s plenty of gold into your pockets and mine, and of everybody’s else, but we have the pleasure of spending it.”

Belle’s husband: “The mention of her name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.”

Martha Cratchit: “That’s why I came… I am not Martha.”

Schoolmaster: “I doubt it, Ebenezer, don’t be cross.”