A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth Quotes

“Foul weather didn't know where to have him.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth

“Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: What then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth

“It seems as if we can't go right, or do right, or be righted”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth

“Понякога така се озадачавам, че дори не мога да реша дали изобщо у нас има нещо добро, или сме родени лоши.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol & Other Holiday Tales

“They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. A stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacingly. 'Spirit! are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more. 'They are man's,' said the Spirit looking down upon them, 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol & Other Holiday Tales

“E com'è duro, papà, invecchiare, morire, e pensare che ci si poteva sostenere e aiutare a vicenda.
Com'è duro amarsi per tutta la vita e soffrire nel restare separati e vedersi logorare dal lavoro, dalle fatiche e dagli anni.
Com'è doloroso avere un cuore pieno d'amore e vederlo prosciugare lentamente, goccia a goccia, senza il ricordo di uno di quei momenti che rendono felice la vita di una donna, senza che un ricorso che mi conforti e mi renda migliore!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol & Other Holiday Tales

“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol & Other Holiday Tales