Christmas Quotes

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; ‘Peace on the earth; good will to man From Heaven’s all gracious King.’

One Christmas was so much like the other in those days around the sea-torn corner now out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear the moment before sleep that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it […]

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Christmas would mean nothing if it were not shared with someone. It is a festival which cannot be indulged in alone. The gaudy red ribbon about the simplest gift causes that gift to take on a merit which it did not possess before; and just as a single rose may light up a room, so […]

Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen; When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.