Bad habit Quote by George Saunders

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that…

— Leslie Bricusse

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to…

— Charles Dickens

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the…

— Claire Tomalin

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played…

— Gillian Jacobs

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way -…

— Elif Batuman

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

— David Archuleta

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single…

— Jeremy Begbie

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

— Peter Billingsley

I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same…

— Jim Carrey

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

— Leonard Maltin

I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got…

— Terry Zwigoff