For the last few years, I’ve made it a cozy tradition to dive into “A Christmas Carol” every holiday season. There’s just something magical about Dickens’ words, and I always try to stay true to his storytelling. Dickens truly is a literary wizard, making this book a timeless classic and probably one of the best-sellers ever.
A while back, during a stroll through a vintage store, I stumbled upon a copy of this classic book that I simply couldn’t resist bringing home. And that’s how one of our Christmas traditions began. Even though my daughter is a bit too old for Christmas stories, we still try to read a chapter in the evenings leading up to Christmas eve.
Now, as the holiday season approaches and the perfect time for a cozy read is here, I wanted to share with you some of the most inspiring quotes from the book.
It’s my way of revisiting the true essence of Christmas and spreading a bit of that festive magic.
Christmas Quotes from A Christmas Carol Book
These quotes aren’t just words on a page. They’re nuggets of timeless insight that capture the essence of Dickens’ classic tale. From the witty remarks of Ebenezer Scrooge to the Ghost’s profound observations, these quotes delve into the spirit of Christmas and the magic of personal change.
These quotes are like a cozy blanket for the soul, reminding us that the holiday season is a time for reflection, growth, and spreading joy.
Instead of a simple Merry Christmas, you can incorporate some of these gems into your Christmas cards for an added touch of heartwarming cheer.
- “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. 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!”
- “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
- “There’s a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door. I should like to do him good.”
- “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year!”
- “I will keep Christmas in my own way.”
- “And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.”
- “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
- “Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.”
- “I am the Ghost of Christmas Past…I am the Ghost of Christmas Present…I am the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.”
Transformation Quotes from A Christmas Carol Book
Here are more quotes that showcase the transformative journey of Ebenezer Scrooge and the themes of redemption and appreciation woven throughout the narrative.
- “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
- “I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.”
- “A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.”
- “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”
- “Marley’s ghost, a haunting reminder of choices unkind, wanders through the shadows of regret, echoing the chains forged by a life misspent.”
- “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.”
- “I wish you to be happy in the life you have chosen!”
- “I wear the chain I forged in life.”
- “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.”
- “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
- “The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
- “I don’t know what day of the month it is. I don’t know how long I’ve been among the Spirits.”
- “The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
- “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose?”
- “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.”
- “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew.”
- “And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
- “I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”
- “His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
- “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.”
- “He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”
- “He did not go to the window, nor did he go to the door, he went to the churchyard.”
- “In the sight of Heaven, no doubt, this virtue is its own reward.”
- “He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.”
- “He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards.”
- “I am not the man I was.”
- “There is a man that would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty and appall the free, confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I am that spirit, I am indeed that man of business.”
- “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”
- “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. 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.”
- “Man’s course will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the course be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”
- “It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
- “I hope that real change will come of it.”
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The quotes in this article were curated from the classic A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
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Merry Christmas!
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