Jacob Marley Quotes

“They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father or Jacob Marley or some other...”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“It is required of every man,... that the spirit within him walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world... and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was mu business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.”
― Kingfisher Pink, Marley

“In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Tiny Tim is the personification of Scrooge's dormant conscience that he finally acknowledges and embraces in the end.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Ukraine and Russia are like Jacob Marely, they are forever chained to their past baggage of historical activities and grievances, their geography and border disputes, who are relegated through conflict and delegated to serve as a lesson to other nations from the past, present, and future of how far geopolitical imperatives could go if they are unwilling to negotiate a practical relationship between them.”
― Lloyd Wedes