Delve into the cynical world of Ebenezer Scrooge with these impactful quotes from “A Christmas Carol (2009) Movie quotes”. Experience the transformation of a miserly old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, through his own words, capturing his initial humbug attitude and his journey towards redemption in this classic Christmas tale.
Scrooge Quotes: Life & Cynicism (A Christmas Carol (2009) Movie quotes)
- “Quite dead. As a doornail.”
- “Tuppence is tuppence.”
- “Delinquents.”
- “Bah! Humbug!”
- “Merry Christmas. What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
- “Humbug!”
- “What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this?”
- “Merry Christmas. What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money. A time for finding yourself a year older and not a penny richer.”
- “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!”
- “Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.”
- “Let me leave it alone then. Much good it has ever done you.”
- “There are many things from which I have derived good and have not profited. Christmas being among them.”
- “I’ll see you in hell first.”
- “Good afternoon.”
- “There’s another one. A clerk making 15 shillings a week… …and with a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam.”
- “Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years. He died seven years ago…this very night.”
- “Are there no prisons?”
- “And the union workhouses, are they still in operation?”
- “The treadmill in full vigour?”
- “Good! I was afraid something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.”
- “Nothing. I wish to be left alone! I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I support the establishments I have mentioned. And those who are badly off must go there.”
- “Then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”
- “Bugger it!”
- “Why does everything seem to happen to me?”
- “Balderdash! I have given myself the willies. That’s what it is.”
- “You do not believe in me. I don’t.”
- “Because the littlest thing can affect them. A slight disorder of the stomach can make them cheat. You may be an undigested bit of beef. A blot of mustard. A crumb of cheese. A fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are.”
- “Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?”
- “I do! I must!”
- “Jacob, tell me no more. Speak comfort to me, Jacob.”
- “You must’ve covered a lot of ground in seven years.”
- “But you were always a good man of business!”
- “That’s the chance and hope? I’d rather not.”
- “Couldn’t I take them all at once, and have it over with, Jacob?”
- “I’m sorry. I wish I could help you.”
- “I meant nothing by it. I meant no offense. I just thought I…”
- “Long past? Your past.”
- “Nothing. Something in my eye.”
- “Remember it? I could walk it blindfolded.”
- “Poor boy. Poor, poor boy.”
- “She had a large heart.”
- “Yes, one child. Yes.”
- “Know it? I was an apprentice here!”
- “Another idol? What idol? There is nothing on this earth more terrifying to me than a life doomed to poverty. May I ask, why do you condemn, with such severity, the honest pursuit of substance?”
- “Changed? Perhaps grown wiser, but I have not changed toward you.”
- “[bangs the desk with his fists] I was a boy!”
- “Have I ever sought release?”
- “You think not?”
- “Spirit, remove me from this place.”
- “Remove me. I cannot bear it. Leave me! Take me back!”
- “Haunt me no longer!”
- “Oh, blast!”
- “Never. Never.”
- “I don’t think that I have. You have many brothers? Oh. I see you wear a scabbard, but no sword. Indeed. Peace on Earth. Goodwill toward men.”
- “Spirit, conduct me where you will.”
- “Yes. It’s quite beautiful.”
- “Aye. I will.”
- “Smell that? Cooking goose! Come on!”
- “Spirit, tell me, will Tiny Tim…?”
- “Die! No, spirit. No.”
- “What then? If he is to die, he had better do it. And decrease the surplus population.”
- “Are spirits’ lives so short? Tonight? Tonight at midnight.”
- “Forgive me…but I see something strange protruding from your skirt. Is it a foot or a claw?”
- “Are they yours? Have they no refuge? No resource?”
- “Am I in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to C-Come? You’re about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened but will happen. Is that so, spirit?”
- “Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen. But I know your purpose is to do me good. I am prepared to bear you company. Lead on. The night is waning fast. it’s precious time to me. Lead on, spirit.”
- “Get ahold of yourself, Ebenezer. You’re having a wobbly.”
- “You won’t get me in here.”
- “Oh, come now.”
- “Mrs. Dilber?”
- “You’re fired! [High-pitched] Fired!”
- “Mrs. Dilber! You’re fired!”
- “Hey! Whoa! Spirit! I see! I see! The case of this unhappy man who dies a solitary, lonesome death might be my own. My life tends that way now. Merciful heavens! What’s this? Spirit, this is a fearful place. When I leave it, I shall not leave its lesson. Trust me. Let’s go! I understand. And I would, if I could, but I have not the power. Spirit, if there is any person who feels emotion caused by this man’s death, show that person to me, I beg you.”
- “Let me see some tenderness connected to death, or this chamber will forever haunt me!”
- “Bob. Specter…something tells me our parting moment is at hand. Tell me… …who…was that man we saw lying dead?”
- “Spirit… …before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question! Are these the shadows of things that will be or shadows of things that may be? Men’s courses in life foreshadow certain ends. But if these courses are departed from, these ends will change. Isn’t that so?”
- “No. No! Am I that man who lay upon the bed? No. Spirit, hear me! I’m not the man I was! Why show me this if I’m past all hope? Spirit! Spirit, assure me that I may change these shadows you’ve shown me! Change them by an altered life! No, spirit! No! No, spirit! Good spirit…help me! Spirit! Help me, spirit! Ah! Help, spirit! Spirit, I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will not shut out the lessons of the past, nor present, nor future. Oh, please, spirit, tell me I may sponge away the writing on that stone!”
- “Still here? They’re still here. I’m still here. I’m still here! I’m still here! I don’t know what to do. I’m light as a feather, merry as a schoolboy.”
- “I’ve heard that laugh before.”
- “Ah!”
- “I say, what’s today? It’s Christmas Day? 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.”
- “Hello, my fine fellow. Do you know the poulterer’s on the corner? What an intelligent boy. Yes, my buck. It’s hanging there now. Is it? Go and buy it, then! No, no, I’m in earnest. Go and buy it, bring it back here, and I’ll give you a shilling. Come back in less than five minutes, and I’ll give you a half a crown.”
- “I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit’s. He shan’t know who sent it. It’s twice the size of Tiny Tim.”
- “Mrs. Dilber. Merry Christmas! Yay! My dear Mrs. Dilber, you’re the loveliest creature I have ever laid eyes upon. Dance with me, Mrs. Dilber. Dance with me! What a charming woman.”
- “I shall love it as long as I live. What an honest face it has.”
- “Hello! Whoop! How are you? Merry Christmas.”
- “Why, it’s impossible to carry that to Camden Town. You must have a cab. Drive on, my good man! Hilly-ho! Chirrup! Yahoo! Hip, hip! Chirly-up! Bob’s your uncle! Fanny’s your aunt! Here’s your aunt’s fanny. Live it up, folks! You’ll be a long time dead! Don’t let the worms have all the fun.”
- “Merry Christmas. Happy holiday! Glad tidings. Sir.”
- “My dear sir, how do you…”