A Christmas Carol - Character of Scrooge

Helpful quotes to know if studying 'A Christmas Carol'. Quotes to remember: 'But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!' 'a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!' 'As solitary as an oyster.' 'As hard and sharp as flint.' 'External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.' 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas on his lips' 'should be boiled with his own pudding' 'Are there no prisons? 'And the Union workhouses?' I can't afford to make idle people merry.' 'If they would rather die,' they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.' 'There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night.' 'I should like to have given him something: that’s all.' 'I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all.' 'The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.' 'Another idol has displaced me.' 'Quite alone in the world, I do believe.' 'Have they no refuge or resource?' 'I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.' 'It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral' 'for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.' 'I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own.' 'My life tends that way, now.' 'I am not the man I was.' '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.' '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, Bob' 'I'll raise your salary' 'Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more;' 'and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.' 'He knew how to keep Christmas well'