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(Scrooge's fiancee as she is about to leave him) "It matters little to you, very little. Another idol has displaced me and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve."
- Belle,
A Christmas Carol
(replying to his nephew, Fred, as he wishes him Merry Christmas) "Bah, humbug!"
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(complaining to Fred about Christmas) "What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money and 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 with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(responding to Jacob Marley's ghost who asks him, 'Why do you doubt your senses?') "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are."
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(Now possessing the spirit of Christmas, goes to his nephew's home) "I've come to dinner, if you'll have me."
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future) "Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any specter I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company and do it with a thankful heart."
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(As Bob Cratchit arrives late for work the day after Christmas) "A Merry Christmas to you Bob! A merrier Christmas, Bob my good fellow, than I have given you in many a year! I'll raise your salary and do whatever I can to help your struggling family. We will discuss your affairs this very afternoon over a bowl of Christmas bishop. But first, let's make up the fires. I want you to go out and buy another scuttle of coal before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit."
- Ebenezer Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
(responding to Scrooge's snide comment) "There are some upon this Earth of yours who lay claim to know us and, who do their deeds of passion pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry and selfishness in our name who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us!"
- Ghost of Christmas Present,
A Christmas Carol