Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.
Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.
The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.
Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.
If you’re an engineer, and you’re not very bright, it’s easy to love polychlorinated biphenyls.
"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.