Цитаты из книги автора Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner

He had no further intercourse with spirits, but lived upon the Total-Abstinence Principle ever afterwards;

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

without having the consolation of knowing it.

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing

between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.

Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time of day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.

people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.

an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!

in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying;