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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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Is not love itself a form of a spell, where one is loved and the other loves, and the one who loves is compelled to do the other’s bidding? Of course. It is the same thing.

Roger Zelazny Jack of Shadows (1971)

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

He belonged to a respectable family and I wanted him to continue to belong there.

Gangubai Hangal

Ebriel regarded his adversary. His eyes grew peculiarly lambent, as though he had come to love her. Of course, they were sworn foes; perhaps he had.

Tanith Lee Delirium's Mistress (1986)

I remembered what Jamie had said, that love doesn't solve anything. Maybe. But it helps.

S. E. Hinton Tex (1982)

She’d been happier with him than she had ever thought imaginable, but only now she understood it wasn’t because their DNA had dictated it, but because she’d opened herself up to the concept of love.

John Marrs The One (2017)

There is a critical moment in the calendar of love, and its power is infinite.

Nikolay Karamzin

It is love that acts like a disease, but it works in reverse: it is good when it infects, it kills when it heals.

Paolo Crepet

Every culture has a need for the divine, more like a need for love.

Giulio Giorello

Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes — give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give.

W. Clement Stone

Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.

Vātsyāyana

I love him dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.

John McCain

Jim [Coleman, his defense attorney] and Fred [Lawrence, his minister], I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.

Ted Bundy

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

Amit Ray Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)

Love is almost the only passion that the good man may avow. It is the only one which accords with delicacy.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the "Sun" of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.

Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024)

Oh, who can sound the human breast?
And this strange truth must be confessed;
That city do I love the best
Wherein my heart was heaviest!

Amy Levy A London Plane-tree, and Other Verse (1889)

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return . . .

George Eliot Daniel Deronda (1876)

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly, ugly daughter.

W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury (1875)

A world without love would be no world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Roman Elegies (1789)

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