It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?
We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
True courtiers should be modest, and not nice;
Bold, but not impudent; pleasure love, not vice.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
All women love a good geek, and those who tell you otherwise are lying.
Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom and lives.
Surely most bitter of all sweet things thou art,
And sweetest thou of all things bitter, love.
The point is not that he has come to love Rita. It is that he has learned to see the angel.
My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.