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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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By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband (1895)

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.

E. B. White

Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Brontë

If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

H. P. Lovecraft

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!

Morris West The Heretic (1968)

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

But look — he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gesture one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime.

Virginia Woolf The Waves (1931)

Time in her eyes is spawning past life,
One with the ocean and the woman unfurled,
Holding all the love that waits for you here.

John Carder Bush

Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.

William Penn Fruits of Solitude (1682)

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.

Catullus

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Molière Le Misanthrope (1666)

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.

Bertolt Brecht

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Rajneesh

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea of danger.

Joseph Joubert Pearls of Thought (1881)

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