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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.

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Most quoted on christmas:

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be,
If hands were only join'd when hearts agree.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne The British Enchanters (1705)

I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?

Frederik Pohl Man Plus (1976)

It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.

Kage Baker The Life of the World to Come (2004)

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne The New Bajan (1990)

The soul that loves God finds rest only in God.

Isaac of Nineveh

Any art is a concentrated feeling of love elevated to a world view and translated into an artistic language of symbols.

Marianne von Werefkin

In this light the God who appears to me is the comforter of the poor and their avenger in world history. This avenger of the poor is the God I love.

Hermann Cohen The Concept of Religion in the System of Philosophy (1915)

Science is the real moral school; she teaches man the love and respect for the truth, without which all hope is chimerical.

Marcellin Berthelot

No one knows the pain of losing a loved one more than I do.

Sheikh Hasina

Wayward beauty doth not fancy move,
A frown forbids, a smile engendereth love.

Edward Fairfax Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)

Love conquers all; let us all yield to love!

Pope Pius II

Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.

Harry Styles

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Brennan Manning The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

I want to really live in the present, and find love and joy in the world around me.

Clemantine Wamariya

People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I don’t know how long I can keep lying to someone I want to love.

Curtis C. Chen Kangaroo Too (2017)

Why can't one love with one's body those whom one loves with one's heart?

Sakutarō Hagiwara Cat Town (2014)

It’s a shame everyone is so afraid of sharks but we love our monsters.

Julie Andersen

Life is so much a daily exercise in learning to love yourself and forgive yourself, over and over.

Jonathan Van Ness Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

Pure love of God illuminates the soul of the lover and the mysteries of His divinity are revealed by God when the vision of the Beloved is contemplated.

Abu Talib al-Makki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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