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.
I do love I know not what,
Sometimes this and sometimes that.
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.
I don't know why
I love you like I do
I don't know why, but I do.
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.
Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.