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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:

The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

Tony Harrison

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Sri Chinmoy Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

There is an afterlife to love
and there is love in the afterlife.

Sheri-D Wilson Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

The Feast of Birds is dedicated to Avalei, the Goddess of Love and Death, of whom my master had said: “Not all that is ancient is worthy of praise.”

Sofia Samatar A Stranger in Olondria (2013)

The Beloved created your being from His own love so that He could see His own beauty in the mirror of your heart and make you privy of His mysteries.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

In the last 30 years, Croatia managed to achieve great things and Russia was always there when it was necessary, so thank you once again for that.

Gordan Grlić-Radman Gordan Grlić-Radman (2022)

Without my love, I have no taste for wine.
Without my love, what use this life of mine?

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

Norman Mailer

Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
Then today I started loving you again.

Merle Haggard

Love is not an excuse for bad taste.

Peter S. Beagle A Fine and Private Place (1960)

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time (1986)

I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons Robert Freed Bales (1956)

Hate breeds hate, and love breeds love.

A. S. Neill Summerhill (1960)

Whatever things may be done by one of the lovers to the other, the same should be returned by the other, if she strikes him he should also strike her in return.

Vātsyāyana

The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principle of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.

Edward Jenner The Life of Edward Jenner M.D. Vol. 2 (1838)

In love with the money, I ain't ever letting go

Fetty Wap Fetty Wap (2015)

Family and faith are the invisible double helix of society—two spirals that when linked to one another can effectively reproduce, but whose strength and momentum depend on one another.

Mary Eberstadt

To know the human heart you must make yourself defenseless to Love.

Aaravindha Himadra

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