20+ Christmas Carol Quotes

Christmas time is approaching fast and like every year, we pick our favorite movies to watch this year.

If you are a big fan of the  Christmas Carol movie, you might like to use some of the famous quotes in your Christmas cards!

Get inspired by our collection of the 20+ best Christmas Carol quotes.

20+ Christmas Carol Quotes

1. For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
2. I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making a perfect Laocoön 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 everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
3. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is an infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
4. 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!
5. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
6. You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
   “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
7. No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.
8. 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.
9. At last, however, he began to think — as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
10. Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses are departed from, the ends will change.
11. There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to knowing 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.
12. Come in, — come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
13. Man,” said the Ghost, “if a 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?
14. He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset.
15. And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that is truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Everyone!
16. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
17. [T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
18. There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited.
19. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavored to diffuse in vain.

source: goodreads.com