Famous Christmas Quotes

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
By W. J. Cameron on Authority

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
By Helen Steiner Rice on Blessing

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
By Eva K. Logue on Candle

And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people. "For unto you is born this day in the city of David A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger.
By Luke 2:10-12 on Christ's Birth

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
By Norman Vincent Peale on Christmas

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
By Washington Irving on Christmas

Heap on the wood! The wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
By Sir Walter Scott on Christmas

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
By Erma Bombeck on Christmas Morning

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
By Harlan Miller on Christmas Spirit

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
By Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Spirit

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
By Larry Wilde on Christmas Trees

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
By Richard Lamm on Debt

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
By P. J. O'Rourke on Debt

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
By P. J. O'Rourke on Egg Nog

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!".
By Charles Dickens on God Bless Us

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.
By Dr. Seuss on Grinch

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
By Charles Dickens on Heart

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
By Roy L. Smith on Heart

From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
By Emily Matthews on Heart

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
By George Mathhew Adams on Heart

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
By Leigh Hunt on Heaven's Making

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
By Carol Nelson on Homesick

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
By Loring A. Schuler on Hunger

Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others, Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing, Returns to you glad.
By John Greenleaf Whittier on Joy

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
By Hamilton Wright Mabie on Love

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
By Norman Vincent Peale on Magic

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.
By Laura Ingalls Wilder on Memories

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
By Phyllis Diller on Office Parties

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
By Helen Steiner Rice on Peace

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
By Shirley Temple on Santa Claus

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
By Mary Ellen Chase on State of Mind

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
By Agnes M. Pharo on Tenderness

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
By Bill McKibben on Tradition

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
By Jay Leno on Wise Men

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
By O. Henry on Wise Men

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
By Phillips Brooks on Youth