“Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone.”

“Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher.”

“He is a power-hungry miser, a greedy manipulator of people, who robs the inhabitants of the town of which he is mayor.”

“Scrooge has been immortalized in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.”

“The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.”

“Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.”

“How, without recording these acts of generosity, are such people to avoid the suspicion that they are misers?”

“In addition, you don't want children who are so concerned with delaying gratification that they wind up as misers.”

“Likewise, the misers at the Department of Finance will stifle their giggles when consumer agencies start advising us to cut back and save.”