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.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Never, dear father, love can be,
Like the dear love I had for thee!
True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.