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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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When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

"I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love."

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land,
Where they that love are blest?

Frederick William Faber Hymns (1871)

I can't buy her diamonds, my dick's too small. I never know where I stand with her. It's either a black eye or a love bite.

Pete Doherty

You gotsta love all God's children!

Joseph Lowery

Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent;
Admire, you ladies, read, you boys,
My Country Sentiment.

Robert Graves Country Sentiment (1920)

That grave people hate love for the name’s sake;—
That selfish people hate it for their own;—
Hypocrites for heaven’s;—

Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

[R]aces love to be judged in two ways—by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.

Wendell Phillips

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will
The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever-living still.

George William Russell The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

I loved you before that. I love you now. I’m just an unconscionable bastard, and I used you, that’s all. Now I regret it.

Stephen R. Donaldson The Illearth War (1977)

Love plays its lute behind the screen —
where is a lover to listen to its tune?

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

Fred Astaire

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

I love homosexuality, I promote it, you fuck and you don't leave fuckin' garbage on the earth because of it.

Doug Stanhope Before Turning the Gun on Himself (2012)

Don't you love the new crazy Britney, she's our new Liza.

Kathy Griffin The D-list (2004)

And I would have, now love is over,
An end to all, an end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friend!

Arthur Symons

Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.

Addison Mizner

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum.

Sid Vicious

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