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.
I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.
An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.
The flute is the symbol of spiritual call, the call of divine love.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.
Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.
Love must give warmth and unfading color to every day of the dullest life.
By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.
My jealousy is a congenital illness, or maybe in loving him I have nothing else to love.