Ghost of Christmas Past Quotes in Scrooged (1988)

Claire Phillips: Taxi! Can you get me to the IBC building in three minutes?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Which floor?

Frank Cross: I get it. You're taking me back in time to show me my mother and father, and I'm supposed to get all goosey and blubbery. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy!

Ghost of Christmas Past: That's exactly what Attila the Hun said. But when he saw his mother... Niagara Falls!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Let's face it, Frank. Garden slugs got more out of life than you.

Frank Cross: Yeah? Name one!

Ghost of Christmas Past: It's a bone, you lucky dog!

Ghost of Christmas Past: You left Claire for Frisbee the dog? Frank, let me sum this up for you: you don't know who you are, you don't know what you want, and you don't know what the hell is going on!

Frank Cross: I've made a few mistakes. I gotta live with that. But I do know who I am, I know what I want, and I know what's going on!

Ghost of Christmas Past: [the Ghost has disappeared into a monitor, and whistles to get his attention] Hey, Frank! Up here!

Frank Cross: What's going on?

Ghost of Christmas Past: How should I know? I'm just the ghost! So long, sucker!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Go back to Jersey, you moron!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Niagara Falls, Frankie Angel.

[Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank to 1955]

Frank Cross: Where are we?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Where are we? You mean, "When are we?"

Ebenezer Scrooge: Spirit, show me no more. Why do you delight in torturing me?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I told you, these are the shadows of the things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Leave Me!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Let us see another Christmas in this place.

Ebenezer Scrooge: They were all very much the same. Nothing ever changed.

Ghost of Christmas Past: You changed.

Ebenezer Scrooge: What business has brought you here?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your welfare.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Heh, a night's unbroken rest might aid my welfare.

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your salvation, then.

Ghost of Christmas Past: There was of course, another Christmas Eve with this young woman. Some years later.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Oh please... do not show me that Christmas.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I am.

Ebenezer Scrooge: But... you're just a child!

Ghost of Christmas Past: I can remember nearly 1900 years. I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [watching Fezziwig's Christmas party] What a marvelous man...

Ghost of Christmas Past: What's so marevlous? He's merely spent a few pounds of your mortal money. Three or four, perhaps. What is that to be deserving of so much praise?

Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't understand. He had the power to make us happy or unhappy, to make our work a pleasure or a burden. It's nothing to do with money!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you.

Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't look like a ghost.

Ghost of Christmas Past: Thank you.

Ebenezer Scrooge: May I inquire as to more precisely who or what you are?

Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Long past?

Ghost of Christmas Past: No. Your past.

Ebenezer Scrooge: What business brings you here?

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your welfare.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [scoffs] To be wakened by a ghost at one o'clock in the morning is hardly conducive to my welfare!

Ghost of Christmas Past: Your redemption, then.