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.
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.
Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king.
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
’Tis love, not years or limbs that can
Make the martyr, or the man.
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.