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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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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.

Thomas Merton Love and Living (1979)

When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

Imelda Marcos

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

Akira Toriyama

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

Richard Wurmbrand Tortured For Christ (1967)

It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Adoration isn’t love. I adore Annabella, but I don’t love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don’t adore thee.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Vikram Seth An Equal Music (1999)

The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

Barry Long Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Ah woe is me, through all my days
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great men’s praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Henry Cuyler Bunner Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884)

Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!

Richard Watson Gilder The New Day (1875)

Rest now—and weep—thou praised of Earth!
And own, when all is done,
A world's false worship is not worth
The deep tried love of one.

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)

And love for love is reckoned best.

Joaquin Miller The Ship in the Desert (1875)

"Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers."

Cassandra Clare City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

But you know, it isn't designed. Love just shows up and you go, "Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half."

Jennifer Aniston

White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.

Diane Abbott

I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

The gun is a consequence of our minds. If we were in love with peace, and had no will to destroy each other, there would be no gun.

Justina Robson Natural History (2003)

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

The sun is set—but see in bright array
What hosts of heav'nly light recruit the day!
Love in a shining galaxy appears
Triumphant still.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)

Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?

John Conington The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)

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