My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #5 – Boiled with his own pudding…

If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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Previously:

• …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…
• Even the blind men’s dogs
• A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.