The Man Who Invented Christmas Quotes

Tara: [after Dickens reads the part where Tiny Tim dies] NO!

Scrooge: Rude.

Tara: Is Tiny Tim dead?

Scrooge: Well, of course he is, imbecile.

Charles Dickens: He was very ill.

Scrooge: You can't save every child in London.

Charles Dickens: And the family has no money for a doctor.

Tara: Then Scrooge must save him!

Scrooge: ME?

Scrooge: He wouldn't...

Tara: WHY?

Charles Dickens: Well, he's too selfish.

Tara: He can change, there's good in him, somewhere. I know it.

Scrooge: People don't change.

Charles Dickens: He's been this way, for a long time. I'm not sure he can change.

Tara: Of course he can, he's not a monster.

Scrooge: I thought this was a ghost story, not a fairy tale.

Tara: He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die, Mr. Dickens. He has a heart, doesn't he? It would be too wicked, even for him.

Charles Dickens: [In the Garrick Club] Why do we come here?

John Forster: Hmmm?

Charles Dickens: The service is terrible. The food is inedible. The fees keep going up. It's full of...

[the waiter arrives, a doddering old gentleman]

Charles Dickens: .

Mrs. Dickens: No one is useless in this world...

Charles Dickens: ...who lightens the burden of another - I know.

Mrs. Dickens: For all his faults, you won't find a kinder man.

Charles Dickens: Hmmm. How long he is growing up to be one.