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.
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing!
Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Un conte sans amour est comme du boudin sans moutarde; c’est chose insipide.
You know, actually we have no love — that is a terrible thing to realize.
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits.
Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.