Scrooge (1970)
Kenneth More: Ghost of Christmas Present
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Quotes
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Ghost of Christmas Present : Here, Scrooge. I have brought you home.
Ebenezer Scrooge : You're not going.
Ghost of Christmas Present : My time upon this little planet is very brief. I must leave you now.
Ebenezer Scrooge : But we still have so much to talk about, haven't we?
Ghost of Christmas Present : There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.
Ebenezer Scrooge : Yes, but...
Ghost of Christmas Present : Remember, Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not there anymore.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [outside Bob Cratchit's home] I want to look in the window.
Ghost of Christmas Present : It will cost you nothing, which I'm sure will be good news for you.
Ebenezer Scrooge : Will they be able to see me?
Ghost of Christmas Present : No, which I feel sure will be good news for them.
Ebenezer Scrooge : I could do with another of them drinks.
Ghost of Christmas Present : Later. For the time being, I think it better you see things as they really are.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : That's all very well for you, but as for me, I hate life!
Ghost of Christmas Present : Nonsense, man! Why?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Because life hates me, that's why!
Ghost of Christmas Present : Scrooge, you're an even bigger fool than I took you for. I've never heard such a lot of self-pitying drivel. You don't even know *how* to live!
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Ghost of Christmas Present : Come over here, you weird little man! I am the Spirit of Christmas Present. Now, look upon me. You have never seen the like of me before.
Ebenezer Scrooge : Never.
Ghost of Christmas Present : Yet how many of my brothers have you rejected in your miserable lifetime?
Ebenezer Scrooge : I have never met any of your brothers, sir.
Ghost of Christmas Present : You have never looked for them!
Ebenezer Scrooge : How many of them are there?
Ghost of Christmas Present : What year is this?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Eighteen-hundred and sixty.
Ghost of Christmas Present : Then I have eighteen-hundred and fifty-nine brothers. Each year at this time, one of us visits this puny little planet to spread some happiness, and to remove as many as we can of the causes of human misery. Which is why I have come to see you, Ebenezer Scrooge.
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[Scrooge is covertly watching Harry's Christmas party]
Tom - Friend of Harry's : Harry, I've visited you every Christmas for the past five years, and to this day I can never understand this extraordinary ritual of toasting the health of your old uncle Ebenezer. I mean, everybody knows he's the most miserable old skinflint that ever walked God's earth.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [glaring] Who's he?
Ghost of Christmas Present : Oh... just a friend.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : My dear Tom, it's very simple. He is indeed the most despicable old miser, worse than you could ever possibly imagine.
[Ghost of Christmas Present bursts out laughing]
Ebenezer Scrooge : You find this amusing?
Ghost of Christmas Present : Believe it or not, he likes you.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : See, I look at it this way: If I can wish a Merry Christmas to him, who is beyond dispute the most obnoxious and parsimonious of all living creatures, then I know in my heart that I am truly a man of goodwill.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [rising to lunge at Harry] Scoundrel!
Ghost of Christmas Present : Wait! There's more to come.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : And besides... I like old Scrooge!
Ghost of Christmas Present : What did I tell you?
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Truly I do! I can't help feeling that hidden somewhere deep inside that loathsome old carcass of his, there's a different man fighting to get out.
Tom - Friend of Harry's : Careful, Harry, he may be even worse than the one you know.
Harry, Scrooge's Nephew : Oh! God forbid, Tom. Anyway, that's the reason I ask him to come here every Christmas, in the forlorn hope that one day he might pick up enough goodwill to raise his clerk's wages by five shillings a week. God knows it's high time he did!
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Ebenezer Scrooge : And, er... what will become of Tiny Tim?
Ghost of Christmas Present : What's this? Concern over a sick child? Have you taken leave of your senses?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Don't mock me, spirit. Is the child very sick? Not that it's of any great importance to me whether he is or not, but is he?
Ghost of Christmas Present : Well, of course he's sick.
Ebenezer Scrooge : You mean he's seriously ill.
[Ghost of Christmas Present stops walking, gives Scrooge a grave look]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Will he live?
[Ghost is quiet]
Ebenezer Scrooge : Well, will he?
Ghost of Christmas Present : What does it matter to you, Ebenezer Scrooge? If he's going to die, then he'd better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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Ghost of Christmas Present : You're a funny-looking little creature. I must admit I found it hard to believe you'd be as horrible as my brothers said you'd be. But now that I look at you, I can see that they were understating the truth.
Ebenezer Scrooge : [indignant] Let me assure you that I am a man of the highest principles and the most generous spirit!
Ghost of Christmas Present : "Generous spirit"? You? You don't know the meaning of the phrase!
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [asking about the ghost's elder brothers] How many of them are there?
Ghost of Christmas Present : What year is this?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Eighteen hundred and sixty.
Ghost of Christmas Present : Then I have eighteen hundred and fifty-nine brothers.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : I think Bob Cratchit's really rather fond of me.
Ghost of Christmas Present : Oh, ho ho ho, and so's his wife! Couldn't you tell?
Ebenezer Scrooge : She doesn't really know me.
Ghost of Christmas Present : That is one of the few things wherein fate has blessed her.
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Ghost of Christmas Present : Present: What year is this?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Scrooge: It is eighteen hundred and sixty!