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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 human mind loves the bondage of words and is apt, when freed from one form of their tyranny, to set up another more oppressive than the last.

L. P. Jacks The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.

Axl Rose

For true hearts there is no separating ocean; or, rather, God is their ocean, in Whom they meet and are united. They love, they lose themselves in Him.

Théodore Guérin

He has always been here, and He is here now. He loves you and is working actively for your good in His own way.

John Townsend Where Is God (2009)

He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, “But you had a right to be angry.”
“Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.”

Patricia A. McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.

David Gemmell

To say that restraint administered in love and with the welfare of all concerned vividly in mind is immoral, is to reduce society to anarchy and chaos.

Kirby Page The Personality of Jesus (1932)

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Love and death are gritty subjects. Their appropriate handling by poets does not require myrtle petals and violets.

Lindsey Davis Last Act in Palmyra (1994)

If you can't love yourself how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Say amen!

RuPaul

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)

Music completely overpowers me. Love it when I can experience it with my live audience.

Shreya Ghoshal

Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.

M. K. Hobson The Hidden Goddess (2011)

I don't have anything else right now. But if given a chance, I would love to do a cookery show as I love cooking.

Dipika Kakar

However dead a past love may be, new lovers are much...upset by them.

Javier Marías Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)

In fact I was never the son my parents wanted. I mean, I think that they really loved me. But it’s something I realised from a very young age.

Pedro Almodóvar

For the last 70 years, English media has loved to paint any rightist organization, especially RSS, as regressive, uncivilized, aggressive and fundamentalist.

Vivek Agnihotri Urban Naxals (2018)

"I want to be the greatest. But in what? In loving people and loving God!"

Maximilian Kolbe

I exhort you with all the ardour of my soul. Learn, instruct, encourage love of study, and you will have fulfilled your mission on earth.

Marcelo H. del Pilar

You can't do everything at the same time, don't be too much in a hurry. Space out yourself, rest, understand yourself and love yourself.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

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