Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population. " Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
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.
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Because every buck is dear to him.
it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning
Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.
I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting. . . You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass. . . It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.
Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present. " "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
If they would rather die,. . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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.
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
Mankind was my business. . . charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
