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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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The command to a Christian couple is: "Grow in grace and love together."

G. E. M. Anscombe Contraception and Chastity (1975)

I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it.

Ashlee Simpson

Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love:
Go and repose.
What I need is a sword, rivers of gold,
and acrid prose.

José Rizal

Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay!
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long,
And saw love in a dark crown
Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree
Golden with fruit of a man's body.

R. S. Thomas Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

The love-diffusing [Lord] will separate us.

Taliesin Book of Taliesin (1275)

She, perhaps, was the one I should have always loved; she whom I seek gropingly, desperately, from each to the next.

Henri Barbusse Light (1919)

It's so easy to fall in love — it's so easy to fall in love.
People tell me love is for fools,
So here I go breaking all of the rules.

Buddy Holly

’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.

Charles Stuart Calverley

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck Wisdom and Destiny (1898)

Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.

Frederic Raphael Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001)

But, ah! if empty dreams so please,
Love give me more such nights as these.

Robert Herrick Hesperides (1648)

Father of Peace, and God of love!
We own Thy power to save,
That power by which our Shepherd rose
Victorious o'er the grave.

Philip Doddridge

Steer, hither steer your wingèd pines,
All beaten mariners!
Here lie Love’s undiscover’d mines,
A prey to passengers.

William Browne

But true love comes, not so lightly
Without fear and with no doubting,
We always fear that what we love may fail,
So I don't dare to stir myself to speak.

Bernart de Ventadorn

The books we love, love us back.

John Leonard

I dared not dream she loved me.

Joaquin Miller The Ship in the Desert (1875)

Then the song! Ah, then the sabre
Flashing up the walls of night!
Hate of wrong and love of neighbor
Rhymes of battle for the Right!

Joaquin Miller In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

François Mauriac The Rough Guide to Germany (2004)

O sir! I love the fruit that treason brings,
But those that are the traitors, them I hate.

Robert Greene Selimus (1594)

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