A Christmas Carol:
Directions: The quotes below require that you:
A. Identify the speaker of the quote
B. Write the quote and the speaker on the LITERARY TERM pages in the
Study packet.
“Yo no, my boys!...No more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer!”
“I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and ai hope he’d
have a good appetite for it.”
“I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday. My little, little child!”
“There are some upon this earth of yours…who claim to know us, and who do their deeds
of passion, pride, ill will, hatred, envy, and selfishness in our name.”
“My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house-mark me!—in life my spirit never
roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole: and weary journeys lie
before me!”
“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”
“He has given us plenty of merriment…and it would be ungrateful not to drink to his
health.”
“Hear me! cried the Ghost. “My time is nearly gone.”
“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home is like Heaven!”
“Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come I
have no just cause to grieve.”
“God Bless us, every one!” (Tiny Tim, Stave 2)
“This is the end of it, you see! He frightened everyone away from him when he was
alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, Ha!”
“Assure me that I may yet change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!”
“I’ll give you Mr. Scone, the founder of the feast!”
“I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link…and of my own free will I wore
it.”
“I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity
him.”
“Marley is as dead as a doornail.”
“Why it’s old Fezziwig! Bless his heart.”
“More than eighteen hundred.” (Ghost Past/Stave 3)
“I wish to be left alone.”
“…would you so soon put out, with worldly hand, the light I give?”
“Mankind was my business.”
“…but mostly beware this boy (Ignorance) for on his brow I see that written is doom…”
(Past/Stave 3)
“Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his
own pudding and buried with a stake in his heart.”
“…though Christmas has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has
one me good…”
“My life upon this globe is very brief. It ends to-night.”
“I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers y his ill whims!
Himself, always.”
“To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”
“I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate.”
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”
“I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I as merry as a school-boy. … A
merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”