A Christmas Carol - Key Quotation Posters (Dual Coded)

18 fantastic custom dual coded posters for key quotations across Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol!

Each poster highlights a key quotation from essential sections of the text, cross referenced with the Stave and key character. Custom dual-coded images have been created to partner each quotation, with theme symbols used to reinforce thematic and textual links.

From awesome classroom decoration to essential exam revision, these posters are ideal resources for supporting quotation recall and thematic links.

Key quotations include:
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”

“He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow”

“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry”

““If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population””

““Mankind was my business […] the dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!””

“It was a strange figure - like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium”

“He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice”

“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you”

“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”

“There sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge”

““There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name””

““Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?””

““Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live””

“This boy is Ignorance.This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased”

“The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved, it seemed to scatter gloom, and mystery.”

“Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did!”

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.”

“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.”