Ebenezer Scrooge Quotes — A Christmas Carol

Painterly closed leather wallet secured by a metal chain and padlock — Original artwork

Christmas is a very busy time for us, Mr. Cratchit. People preparing feasts, giving parties, spending the mortgage money on frivolities. One might say that December is the foreclosure season. Harvest time for the money-lenders.

Ebenezer Scrooge

A red rose petal folded around an iron nail on a rough gray stone surface. — Original artwork

What an employer he was. As hard and ruthless as a rose petal.

Ebenezer Scrooge

A thin old man in a top hat waves away a cloaked visitor from his tall desk in a cold candlelit counting house, a clerk shivering nearby. — Original artwork

Bah! Humbug!

Ebenezer Scrooge

Victorian engraving: two gentlemen in top hats appeal to a sour old miser hunched at his desk in a cold counting-house. — Original artwork

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Ebenezer Scrooge

Victorian engraving: an old man kneels by a snowy grave as a tall hooded phantom points down at it under the moon. — Original artwork

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Ebenezer Scrooge