Top 35 Quotes About Christmas From A Christmas Carol
#1. 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
#2. I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.
Jackie French
#3. 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
#4. If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.
Phil Lester
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Leonard Maltin
#8. 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
#9. christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home.
Carol Nelson
#10. He who steals from a citizen," said Cato, "ends his days in fetters and chains; but he who steals from the community ends them in purple and gold."17
Will Durant
#11. I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
Warren Ellis
#12. I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.
Eric Thomas
#13. Kindness is not an act; It is our inherent nature.
Deepak Chandar
#14. 21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
Michael Eisner
#15. That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you
Keri Arthur
#16. One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
Gian Carlo Menotti
#17. 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
#18. Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no!
Charles Dickens
#19. '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
#20. 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
#22. There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited
Charles Dickens
#23. 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
#24. Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
Jackie Chan
#25. 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
#26. Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well ... not yet, give me time and a crayon.
Matt Smith
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#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. 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
#32. We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.
Joyce Meyer
#33. 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
#34. My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'
Leland Orser
#35. Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
Charles Dickens
