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.
Quotes about scrooge (15 Quotes)
Bah,' said Scrooge. Humbug.
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 the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch dark, ghostly figures in their several stations but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year and had shared to some extent in its festivities and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
If I could work my will, said Scrooge indignantly, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should
They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a Scrooge mentality, but they're putting it into a different form.
It's Christmas Day said Scrooge to himself. I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.
Lead on said Scrooge. Lead on The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit
There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge for, wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge blunt as he took it in his head to be.
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 father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed and that was quite enough for him.
Too often in the past, members of Congress have won re-election with a two-part strategy Talk like Scrooge on the campaign trail. Vote like Santa Claus on the Senate floor.
Nobody wants to be a scrooge, but at the same time if we are not, we are going to be far worse off.
Anderson turned his life around at the San Diego Rescue Mission, where he kicked cocaine, became a Christian and rose to become the mission's interim director in the early 1990s. In 2000, he took over the Richmond mission. When I was a successful businessman in Florida, I had no tolerance for homeless people. I could have been Scrooge, ... Now, the people I had no tolerance for, the people I thought would be better off dead, are the people I serve and love.
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 he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.