I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
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.
We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.