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source: Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.30, Book House

topic: Christmas, Daughter, Home, Christmas Carol

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, '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.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Passion, Pride, Names, Carols, Zealot

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.18

topic: Men, Fellow Man, Spirit, Carols, Christmas Carol

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Rain, Fall, Wind, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

- Leonard Maltin

topic: Christmas, Stories, Fool, Carols, Christmas Carol

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!

- Charles Dickens

topic: May, Potatoes, Cheese, Mustard, Scrooge

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect LaocoÃ¶n of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

- Charles Dickens

topic: New Year, Angel, School, Giddy, Stockings

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Funny Christmas, Drinking, People, Christmas Carol, Funny Holiday

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.58

topic: Heart, Men, Wicked, Carols, Adamant

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

- George Saunders

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Important, Christmas Carol

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

- Zadie Smith

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Book, Comfort, Way, Carols, Christmas Carol

The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids.

- George Saunders

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Sweet, Kids, Ivy, Ivy League, Cranky

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Beach, Reading, Eye, Christmas Carol

Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

- Howard Dean

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Song, Religious, Holiday, Christmas Carol, Religious Holiday

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

- John Cusack

topic: Past, People, Ghost, Carols, Christmas Carol

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

- Patricia Briggs

source: Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.451, Penguin

topic: Christian, Night, July, Fae, Christmas Carol

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Christmas, Shepherds, Babe, Carols, Christmas Carol

I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also cry at weddings. To me weddings are very solemn occasions. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

- Ethel Merman

source: "Merman: An Autobiography".

topic: Christmas, Wedding, Couple, Christmas Carol

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

topic: Compassion, Hard Times, Self, Scrooge, Christmas Carol

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

- Whitley Strieber

topic: Christmas, Writing, Years, My Grandfather, Christmas Carol

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

- Mo Rocca

topic: Christmas, Stars, Shopping, Carols, Christmas Carol

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.

- Nora Roberts

source: J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.283, Penguin

topic: Air, People, Car, Christmas Carol

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

- Tori Amos

topic: Girl, Mom, Car, Carols, Carolina

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

- Whitley Strieber

topic: Christmas, Mother, Brother, Christmas Carol, Fountain Pens

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

- Zooey Deschanel

topic: Christmas, Song, Singing, Carols, Music Hall

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