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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:

Dianne, thank you for teaching me about caring about the right things, and I love you.

Kevin Spacey

Oh dear me — it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

Mrs Patrick Campbell

All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace.

Dorothy Thompson Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

Sweet mother, I truly cannot weave my web; for I am o’erwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender youth.

Sappho

Now Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.

Sappho

Love always makes those eloquent that have it.

Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander (1598)

Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.

Henry van Dyke The Ruling Passion (1901)

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other, and this until death.

Pope Paul VI

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage (1861)

Whoever heard of La-ing or Lo-ing somebody you’re herding goats with, or laughing with, or making love with.

Samuel R. Delany The Einstein Intersection (1967)

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock (1985)

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

Taylor Caldwell

Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!

Jean de La Fontaine Fables (1668)

Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven (1993)

One love, one heart,
Let's get together and feel alright.

Bob Marley

I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Here is Thy righteousness and here is Thy unrighteousness. Take them both, Mother, and give me pure love.

Ramakrishna The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942)

Relentless Pleistocene selection was shaping everything that would make up humanity. Even love was a by-product of evolution. Love, and the pain of loss.

Stephen Baxter Evolution (2002)

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