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Christmas Quotes

Last updated: May 13, 2020

85 Christmas Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin: inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
— Edna Ferber, via Tumblr
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“One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.”
— Zooey Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward on 'A Very She & Him Christmas'
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“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
— Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box Collection: The Christmas Box, Timepiece, and The Letter
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“It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas (the thought) means a little bit more.”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, Christmas, ribbons, packages
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, candy
“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
— Charlotte Carpenter, via Amazon
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“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments that disappear underneath the other ornaments and finery.

Shadows follow, joyful, laughing sprites.

The tree is rich with potential wonder.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Christmas, Holidays, Honor
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
— Brandon Woelfel
Tagged: Christmas, Going Home
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!”
— Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!(Classic Seuss)
Tagged: Christmas, Materialism
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
— Burton Hillis, Christmas
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“I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet, the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! ”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells
Tagged: Christmas, Peace on Earth
“Around the holidays, the food is amazing. I love making food for everybody, especially cookies. I help with everything for the Christmas dinner–me and my mom are crazy in the kitchen.”
— Taylor Swift, via Tumblr
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“I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
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“Beginning in the fall, there was all this excitement about Christmas and how it was a day for them. After Thanksgiving, they couldn't miss it. It was fixed so they couldn't miss it. The wreaths and decorations everywhere, and bells ringing, and trees in the park, and Santa Clauses on every corner, and pictures in the magazines and newspapers and on every wall and window in the city told them that if they were good, they would get what they wanted. Even if they couldn't read, they couldn't miss it. They couldn't miss it even if they were blind. It got into the air the poor kids inhaled. Every time they took a walk, they'd see all the expensive toys in the store windows, and they'd write letters to Santa Claus, and their mothers and fathers would promise to mail them, and after the kids had gone to sleep, they'd burn the letters in the stove. And when it came Christmas morning, how could you explain it, how could you tell them that Santa Claus only visited the rich, that he didn't know about the good? How could you face them when all you had to give them was a balloon or a lollipop?”
— John Cheever, Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor
Tagged: Seasonal Depression, Christmas, Capitalism
“The thoughtfulness and goodwill messages from loved ones brighten my Christmas day.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”
— J.C. Penney, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Merry Christmas!: 101 Joyous Holiday Stories
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“I will never forget when I was about 12, and my mother told my siblings and me that we would not be receiving Christmas gifts because there wasn't enough money.I remember at the time that I felt sad and thought: "What would I say when the other kids asked what I had gotten?" Just when I started to accept that there would not be a Christmas that year, three nuns showed up at our house with gifts for us. There was a turkey, a fruit basket, and some games, and for me, there was a doll.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Quotes from our favorite ladies that bring on all the Christmas feels
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“The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had; it’s a fresh start.”
— Kelly Clarkson, Quotes from our favorite ladies that bring on all the Christmas feels
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“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
— Dale Evans, Christmas quotes: An assortment of more than 50 Xmas quotes
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“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”
— Winston Churchill, Christmas Eve Message 1941
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“It is easy to feel pressure during this time of year. The pressure of getting gifts and going to parties and being around loved ones and strangers, who expect you to perform that most wonderful time of the year demeanor. But don’t get lost in the ‘stuff’ of this time of year. Instead, every time you feel that pressure, think of the fact that there are people who love you. And they love you for you, not for what you can give or do during this time of the year or any time of year; they love you for who you are.”
— Kovie Biakolo, 9 Things To Remember If You Feel Sad, Anxious, Or Lonely During The Holidays
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Love, Materialism
“Be considerate and kind to others during the holidays. Don’t freak out over little things. Smile at strangers. Be friendly to sales associates and cashiers; they’re stressed out, too. It’s not hard to be a nice person.”
— Kara Nesvig, 16 Ways To Make This The Best Holiday Season Ever
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, kindness
“Many of you will be sitting in a room with laughing kids who won't be kids much longer, and proud grandparents who won't be around much longer, and it probably won't occur to you that all of it is as tenuous as a snowflake on a dog's nose. It won't occur to you that there will never be another Christmas exactly like this one, that time will move on and people will change and that some day your most treasured memories will be things that at the time you experienced with nothing more than detached, mild annoyance.

So, if you're gathering with your family and friends this time of year, I personally don't care what you call the holiday as long as you celebrate it with this in mind:

You don't get many of these. Make them count.”
— David Wong, The True Meaning of Christmas(That Everyone Forgets)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Death, enjoy the moment
“Christmas is a time for families.”
— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Family
“Remember that you are capable of giving this time of year new meaning and new memories.”
— Kovie Biakolo, 9 Things To Remember If You Feel Sad, Anxious, Or Lonely During The Holidays
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Memories, fresh start
“Don’t ask yourself things like “It’s almost Christmas, why am I not happy?” That can turn into a shame cycle. It’s just another day — don’t put unrealistic expectations on it, and don’t beat yourself up.”
— KeSha
Tagged: Seasonal Depression, Christmas, Holiday Season
“If you believe in the Christmas story, it’s the story of a child born into poverty. Let’s decide this year to honor Christ’s story and help make the poor less poor. Or let’s do it just because it’s right.”
— Andy Richter
Tagged: Christmas, Christ, Christ's Birth, help the poor, Inspirational
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
— Dr. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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“Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we're horribly mangled, there'll be no sad faces on Christmas.”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Quotes, mangled face, sad face, Christmas
“That last year at Christmas time, every morning dawned laced with frost under leaden skies.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Book 3)
Tagged: Christmas, Descriptions of Winter
“With any luck, by next year—
I'll be going out with one of these girls.
But for now, let me say—
Without hope or agenda—
Just because it's Christmas—
And at Christmas you tell the truth—
To me, you are perfect—
And my wasted heart will love you—
Until you look like this.
Merry Christmas.”
— Mark, Love Actually
Tagged: Romantic Speeches, Love, romance, Christmas
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time”
— Laura Ingalls, via Amazon
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“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”
— Sigrid Undset, via GoodReads
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“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”
— Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain(Christmas Books series Book 5)
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“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
— Hamilton Wright Mabie, 17 Christmas Quotes to Get You in the Holiday Spirit
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“There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.”
— George Melton, Beyond Tomorrow
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“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
— Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!(Classic Seuss)
Tagged: Christmas, Meaning of Christmas
“Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!”
— Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!(Classic Seuss)
Tagged: Christmas, Christmas Presents, Drums, Roller Skates, Bicycles
“The smile on your recipient’s face makes up for everything you may have wronged them by.”
— Katerina Gan, 25 Reasons why YOU should love Christmas.
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, gifts, smiling
“Date someone that makes you feel like a kid again on Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa). Someone that reminds you why you always loved this time of year when you were little. Someone that gives you a reason to look forward to unwrapping presents and taking pictures in your pajamas.”
— Holly Riordan, Date Someone That’s Excited To Spend The Holidays With You
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Dating, Childhood
“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Christmas, Seasonal Depression
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
— Bob Hope, 14 Christmas Quotes That Will Make You Feel Merry and Bright Just In Time For The Holidays
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“Christmas Eve is my favorite... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something - food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar - can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.”
— Kiersten White, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
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“Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.

Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks.

There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers.

There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart.

There is mystery unfolding.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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“For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”
— W.J. Tucker, 48 Joyous Christmas Quotes to Brighten the Season- Daring to Live Fully
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“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
— Hamilton Wright Mabie, 17 Christmas Quotes to Get You in the Holiday Spirit
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“It can be hard to admit that we’re feeling the holiday blues. Because we hear music declaring ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year.’ Because everything is so bright and shiny. Because cookies. But we’re not alone.”
— Lynn Shattuck, You Aren’t The Only One Straining To Be Happy This Holiday Season
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Blues, Depression
“The holidays are about love and joy, and it’s natural to want someone to share those things with.”
— Bridget Kiely, It’s Okay To Miss Them During The Holidays
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Love, Joy