💬 Quotes

"People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this. Because if you tell the truth about someone, it can make them very angry."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Most people are lazy. They think that because something is difficult, it is not worth doing. But that is not true. It just means it is harder, and therefore it is more interesting."

"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him, no wind that blew was bitterer than he."

"I wear the chain I forged in life... I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girt it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

"Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, 'tell me if Tiny Tim will live.'"

"Men's courses foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

"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."

"He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!"

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"The principle of self-preservation is universally acknowledged to be the first law of nature."

"Some casual lamps in the street flickered feebly, but rise where it would, a dark and heavy fog hung low upon the town."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"If the law supposes that,' said the beadle, ... 'the law is a ass—a idiot.'"

"The kindest and most tender-hearted of women seldom shrink from doing as much wrong to the object of their real or fancied dislike, as the most vindictive men."

"Buck's feet were sore, and he was tired. Yet, deep within him, the call of the wild was sounding louder than ever before."

"Domestication was a thin veneer, easily stripped away by the harsh realities of the frost and the law of club and fang."

"He was no longer the pampered pet of Judge Miller's place; he was a killer, fierce and cunning, perfectly adapted to the unforgiving wilderness."

"In the face of death and extreme survival, companionship was forged not out of affection, but out of mutual dependence and respect for strength."

"The ghost dogs of the past whispered to him in the silence of the snow, guiding his steps toward his true destiny."