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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:

What do I have
to help me, without spell or prayer,
endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,
the death of love?

Carol Ann Duffy

The best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man.

Girolamo Savonarola

Very high on the I love Rylla, reasons why list was the fact that the girl had a brain and wasn’t afraid to use it.

H. Beam Piper The Complete Paratime (1947)

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

Jeff VanderMeer City of Saints and Madmen (2001)

But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.

Robert Charles Wilson Darwinia (1998)

And we could have been sweethearts, forever and ever,
Could have loved a whole lot more, been a little more true.

Hoyt Axton

The Tick comes to mind. … that was just my favorite thing ever, and it was so smart and clever, and I loved it.

Patrick Warburton

Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.

Tim Powers Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017)

I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all.

Meir Kahane

Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Love: Be It! (2001)

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.

Gene Wolfe Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987)

God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.

James Richardson Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

"I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs."

Adele Adele - The Biography (2011)

Man’s greatest joy is to revere other men, or to put it less extravagantly, to recognize other men above himself, and to love and be loved by these men.

Paul de Lagarde

It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.

Naguib Mahfouz Mahfouz (1957)

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

Olaf Stapledon Star Maker (1937)

Our present joy is sweeter by past pain,
To love and heav'n, by suff'ring we attain.

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

You should seek harmony in everything you do. I am harmony. Thank you for your love.

Haidakhan Babaji

All of us fight a battle every day, but we just don’t know it. Love tries to defeat hatred. Bravery destroys fear.

John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005)

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