Quotes About Ebenezer Scrooge

#1. Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

Sam Kean

#2. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

#3. Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

Michael Ian Black

#4. 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

#5. A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.

Bob Rotella

#6. When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people.

Jeremy Luke

#7. You jumped like a frog.
You touched like a dog.
You kissed like a bird.

Santosh Kalwar

#8. This wasn't how their story was supposed to go. This wasn't what she dreamed of. And yet, everything had changed.

Laila Blake

#9. Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

#10. As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

John Calvin

#11. I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

Sarah Silverman

#12. It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

Kim Kardashian

#13. I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#14. I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

Evan Williams