Robert Eggers Quotes

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. "Christmas means 'compassion and love' and, most of all 'forgiveness' How poor indeed would be our lives without the influence of His teachings and His matchless example. "He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....' You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.