Christmas Quotes

Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you.

Certain opuscules, denominated ‘Christmas Books,’ with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year.

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)