Top 39 Quotes About A Christmas Carol
#1. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
Susan Hill
#2. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
John Cusack
#3. One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
Gian Carlo Menotti
#4. Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
John Boyne
#5. A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Leonard Maltin
#6. My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'
Leland Orser
#7. Christmas, and the end of the year, is definitely a time when people try their hardest to begin afresh, "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely". (Dickens - "A Christmas Carol") - and JEAN
Charles Dickens
#8. '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 most popular.
Claire Tomalin
#9. I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
Whitley Strieber
#10. So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.
Patricia Briggs
#12. 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 rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love
James E. Faust
#13. Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory
Conrad Anker
#14. Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
Victor Garber
#15. A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein
#16. Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
Carol Ann Duffy
#17. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.
Charles Dickens
#18. christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home.
Carol Nelson
#19. 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.
Stephen King
#20. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If
Timothy Zahn
#21. A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
Olivier Theyskens
#22. Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880 ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.
Sarah Vowell
#23. In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
Benjamin Franklin
#24. 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.
Charles Dickens
#25. Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no!
Charles Dickens
#26. Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
Martha Beck
#27. In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value
Charles Dickens
#28. Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
Charles Dickens
#29. When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.
Tabby Biddle
#30. As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#31. Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
Dorothy Parker
#32. That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.
Michael Crichton
#33. Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
#34. I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.
Ann Bancroft
#35. Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well ... not yet, give me time and a crayon.
Matt Smith
#36. Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.
Hisham Matar
#37. 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 will change.
Charles Dickens
#38. There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited
Charles Dickens
#39. Prayer is the time you spend alone with God.
Art Hochberg
