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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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Milly, what a young gun she is! She’s quick, she’s fiery, I actually love watching her bowl.

Shabnim Ismail

It’s tough at times. I love playing for Ireland, but equally franchise opportunities may not come around forever.

Josh Little

Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.

Jon Anderson

They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Lawrie.

Bayard Taylor The Song of the Camp (1856)

I come to very sad conclusion: Donald Trump is totally mad. It is the shame. We loved him

Aleksandr Dugin

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Of all the floures in the mede,
Than love I most these floures whyte and rede,
Swiche that men callen daysies in our toun.

Geoffrey Chaucer

"He does not love me for my birth
Nor for my lands so broad and fair;
He loves me for my own true worth,
And that is well," said Lady Clare.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare (1842)

I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo (1819)

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus (1833)

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

John Donne Poems (1633)

Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven's despite.

William Blake Songs of Experience (1794)

As you read their names, imagine who they loved, who loved them, and those those left behind cope now without them. They're never coming home. Never.

Margaret Cho

There is no love lost, sir.

Miguel de Cervantes El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)

But Love's bright fount is never pure;
And all his pilgrims must endure
All passion's mighty suffering
Ere they may reach the blessed spring.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Improvisatrice (1824)

—for earth were too like heaven,
If length of life to love were given.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Improvisatrice (1824)

Alas! she looked but in that eye
Where now was writ her destiny.
The heart love leaves looks back ever;
The heart where he is dwelling, never.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Love is divine in our belief
Of its eternity — how vain,
When we have known that Love can die,
To think that he can live again !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine...

Edgar Allan Poe

O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?

John Lyly

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