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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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Most quoted on christmas:

I would love us to talk about the incident so that we remain on good terms.

Gavin Lane

I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.

Caleb Femi

BunnaB, for sure. I love her style, and I think this is the perfect type of thing for her. That would have been a good pick.

YKNiece

Nevertheless, their love and support kept me going and they stood by me through that trying time, and for that, I am sincerely grateful.

Nijel Amos

I would love to have got the gold medal, but this world record says that I’m worthy of the title of world’s greatest athlete.

Dan O'Brien

I could never have imagined someone like him, so full of love, so full of opportunities, would come to look for me, but he did.

Jean-Baptiste Alaize

And if you think I am so dear to Phoebus
for composing poems, in the works of love
you'll find me dearer still to Venus.

Veronica Franco Poems and Selected Letters (2007)

Upon this hint I spake;
She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.

William Shakespeare Othello (1603)

Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.

William Shakespeare

Beware: "In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man."

Friedrich Nietzsche

If allowed may I touch your hand
And if pleased may I once again
So that you too will understand
There's a ribbon in the sky for our love.

Stevie Wonder Ribbon in the Sky (1969)

But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love, in which God ...

Julian of Norwich

I think to love bravely is the best.

Marilyn Monroe

Love, ... who keepest thy vigil on the soft cheek of a maiden

Sophocles

Write by WASTE. ... The government will open it if you use the other. The dolphins will be mad. Love the dolphins.

Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Martin Luther King Jr. Loving Your Enemies (1957)

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Woody Allen Love and Death (1975)

I hope I'm judged a success. I'm well-be dead, Matt, when they finally figure it out, and I'm comfortable knowing that I gave it my all, that I love America.

George W. Bush Interview with Matt Lauer (2010)

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