A Christmas Carol - The most beautiful Quotes

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

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.

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

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Christmas? Shut up!

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures—found only among women—who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

London. The beating heart of England.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I think as you grow older your christmas list gets shorter, because the things you want can't be bought.

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

I'd give up all the world to see that little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I made and I can't live with myself today.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Please, sir, I want some more.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.