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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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And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and yet had no love I were even as the sounding brass or as a tinkling cymbal.

William Tyndale

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same.

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

He did not love in the human way.

Stevie Smith Selected Poems (1962)

I love my clit. I use it every day. Not a day goes by when I don't use it for something.

Kathy Griffin Allegedly (2004)

I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a "singer"......the way Courtney Love is a "singer".

Kathy Griffin Balls of Steel (2009)

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

David Fincher A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

'Love your fellow as yourself'- Rabbi Akiva says: This is the great principal of the Torah

Akiba ben Joseph

Only beauty purely loving
Knows no discord,
But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renewed by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in themselves eternal.

Thomas Campion Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602)

But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.

Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Father, Father Abraham,
To-day look on us from above;
On us, the offspring of thy faith,
The children of thy Christ-like love.

James Weldon Johnson Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss
And see this for what it is
That we're not in love

Leslie Feist Let It Die (2004)

“None of my daughters lacked for any love. We had plenty of love in our house.”

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides (1993)

When Spring is old, and dewy winds
Blow from the south, with odors sweet,
I see my love, in shadowy groves,
Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

Maurice Thompson

A love that took an early root,
And had an early doom.

Thomas Kibble Hervey The Devil's Progress (1849)

Because of sin, I am self-addicted, living in the wreckage of the fall, my body, my heart, and my affections are prone to love things that kill me.

Don Miller Blue Like Jazz (2003)

All hail the conquering hero. My best friend betrayed me, so I shot him. Distracted by a kiss, I let the love of my life die.

Nick Sagan Idlewild (2003)

Sure my love is all crost
Like a bud in the frost
And there's no use at all in my going to bed,
For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

Samuel Lover

"There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

Cassandra Clare City of Glass (2009)

I find you interesting, Joe, so nearly everything you say will be interesting too. I love you. I could say I'm lonely but that's not the only reason.

Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

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