Christmas Carol Quotesbr br "Historically it has been a consolation for the bourgeoisie and you can read the most extreme books and not change, you can read A Christmas story and not change it in any way." Zadie Smith.br br "Come, then," the nephew returned cheerfully. "What right do you have to be depressing? What reason do you have to be moody? You're rich enough." Charles Dickens.br br "The shepherds in the barn, where the baby was born, sang many changes, carols until morning." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.br br "A Christmas story is such an infallible story that you can not waste it." Leonard Maltin.br br "One thing I learned from drinking is that if you're ever going to sing Christmas carols, you should go with a group of people, and also go in mid-December." Louis C K.br br "The courses for men will announce certain goals, which, if they are persevered, they should lead," said Scrooge. "But if they leave the courses, the ends will change." Charles Dickens.br br "If they would rather die, ... it is better that they do so and that they reduce the surplus of the population." Charles Dickens.br br "He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened in this world, for good, in which some people did not feel like laughing" Charles Dickens.br br "Nevil Shute's On the Beach is not a Christmas carol, but it seems to me an extraordinarily good novel, one I read, in a peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page." Dorothy Parkerbr br "So in the suffocating heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol in a room full of fairies, whom the Christians and their cold iron swords had driven out of their homeland." Patricia Briggs.