Scrooge Quotes

21 quotes by 11 authors

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… — Margaret Atwood
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. — Charles Dickens
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that… — Albert Finney
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give… — James E. Faust
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older,… — Charles Dickens
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… — Roger Rosenblatt
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than… — Charles Dickens
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing… — Charles Dickens
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… — Charles Dickens
I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect LaocoÃ¶n of himself with his stockings.… — Charles Dickens
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to… — Charles Dickens
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… — Stephen King
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… — Charles Dickens
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… — Charles Dickens
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… — Jennifer Estep
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,… — Charles Dickens
Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers… — Michael Ian Black
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second… — Charles Dickens
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an excuse me. Typical. — William E Geist

Who Wrote These Scrooge Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 21 Scrooge Quotes as follows: