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Ebenezer Scrooge Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Eugenics
“Jacob Marley's Ghost: You will be visited by three ghosts.

Ebenezer Scrooge: I...I think I'd rather not.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghost, Fear
“There's another fellow, my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, bedlam
“I don't know what day of the month it is! I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, spirits
“[about Bob Cratchit] Fifteen shillings a week, a wife and five children... and he still talks of a Merry Christmas!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Poverty, Merry Christmas
“Now, I'll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore I am about to raise your salary!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Raise, salary
“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask, but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, strange, Foot, claw
“Ghost of Christmas Present: How many of my brothers have you rejected in your miserable lifetime!

Ebenezer Scrooge: I have never met any of your brothers, sir!

Ghost of Christmas Present: You have never looked for them!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghost, brothers, Rejection
“There's the saucepan that the gruel was in! There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered! There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat! There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits! It's all right, it's all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghost
“Because, a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Digestive Problems
“Ebenezer Scrooge: And be good enough to leave me alone during business hours.

Nephew Fred: Seven o'clock on Christmas Eve? That's not business hours, that's drudgery for the sake of it, and an insult to all men of goodwill.

Bob Cratchit: Here, here!

Nephew Fred: [surprised] Thank you, Bob Cratchit.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [slowly turns to Cratchit] Another word from you, Cratchit, and you will celebrate Christmas by losing your position.

Bob Cratchit: Yes, Sir. Sorry, Mr. Scrooge.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [turning back to Fred] You're quite a powerful speaker, Sir. I wonder you don't go into politics. You're fool enough.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghosts, Goodwill, Christmas Eve, Politics
“1st Portly Gentleman: Mr. Scrooge, sir, we find it more than usually desirable than we make some slight provision for the poor and destitute.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Excellent! Then I suggest you do so!

2nd Portly Gentleman: What may we put down for you, sir?

Ebenezer Scrooge: Nothing, sir.

1st Portly Gentleman: Ah, you wish to remain anonymous.

Ebenezer Scrooge: I wish to be left alone, sir! That is what I wish! I don't make myself merry at Christmas and I cannot afford to make idle people merry. I have been forced to support the establishments I have mentioned through taxation and God knows they cost more than they're worth. Those who are badly off must go there.

2nd Portly Gentleman: Many would rather die than go there.

Ebenezer Scrooge: If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population, Good night, gentlemen. [walks away, then turns back] Humbug!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: charity, Poor House, Debtors Prison
“Ebenezer Scrooge: [to Bob] You still don't recognize me, do you Cratchit?

Bob Cratchit: Yes. No. You're Father Christmas?

Ebenezer Scrooge: [chuckles] No. [pulls down his mask briefly]

Mrs. Cratchit: [screams] It's Mr. Scrooge! He's gone mad!

Bob Cratchit: It's all right, dear. There's nothing to be frightened of.

Ebenezer Scrooge: No, I haven't gone mad. And on Monday, when your salary is doubled.

Bob Cratchit: Doubled? [to his wife] He has gone mad!

Ebenezer Scrooge: We'll set together and discuss how I can help your family to start with. We'll find the right doctors to get Tiny Tim well. And we will get him well you don't.

Bob Cratchit: Yes! I believe you, I believe anything!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghost, Disguises, Masks, charity
“Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you.

Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't look like a ghost.

Ghost of Christmas Past: Thank you.

Ebenezer Scrooge: May I inquire more precisely who or what you are?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Long past?

Ghost of Christmas Past: No. Your past.

Ebenezer Scrooge: And what business brings you here?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your welfare.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [scoffs] To be wakened by a ghost at one o'clock in the morning is hardly conducive to my welfare!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your redemption, then.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghost, Christmas Past, Welfare, Redemption
“Now, I'll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore, I am about to raise your salary!…A merry Christmas, Bob! A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, charity, salary
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