Always tell the Truth: where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
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.
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
I hope that whoever stole it, stole it because they loved it, and not because of all the hype.
This is the real thing, brains lying on the ground, and the spectators love it.
Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame and heat.
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.
Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.
And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.
Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.