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.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.
Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.
Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody.
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love when one finds it.
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.