Holidays & Observances: Christmas Quotes

Celebrate the warmth of the season with a thoughtful collection of Christmas quotes. From timeless lines about faith and goodwill to playful sayings about snow, stockings, and sparkling lights, these words offer comfort, cheer, and reflection. Browse uplifting sentiments for cards, social captions, toasts, or quiet moments by the tree. Whether you favor classic blessings, literary gems, or modern messages, find concise inspiration that captures togetherness, gratitude, and the spirit of giving throughout the holidays.

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"Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

Roy L. Smith

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

Garrison Keillor

"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling"

Edna Ferber, Novelist

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas"

Dale Evans, Actress

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"December 25th has become guilt and obligation"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

Phyllis McGinley, Author

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

Carrie Fisher

"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'"

Bing Crosby, Musician

"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday"

John Clayton, Writer

"His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow"

Clement Clarke Moore, Writer

"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

Jerry Seinfeld

"When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas"

Chris Brown, Musician

Chris Brown

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas"

Alfred E. Smith, Politician

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

Muddy Waters

"Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up"

Wendy Cope, Poet

Wendy Cope

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart"

Freya Stark, Writer

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