Charles Dickens Quotes and Quotation

(1843)

• I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
  • Introduction

• Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

• 'Bah!' said Scrooge, 'Humbug!'

• 'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.'
  
  'Come, then,' returned the nephew gaily. 'What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.'

• 'It is required of every man,' the Ghost returned, 'that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world —oh, woe is me! —and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!'

• 'Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'

• '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.'

• Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die. It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God. to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.'

• '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. Say it is thus with what you show me.'

• I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

• …as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Attributed:

• "A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

• "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

• "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."

• "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

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