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.
Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence,
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star
sickened and shrank.
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.
But she—she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
He that is purified by Love is pure (Safi), and he who is purified by the Beloved in Sufi.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.
Sweet breathe the henna-flowers that harem girls
So love to twine among their glossy curls.
I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.