Christmas Quotes
Christmas quotes reflect all the best of the season. The time of year is all about lights, celebrations, happiness, and sharing a lovely season together.
It’s the time of year when everyone shares their love with friends and family. It’s the time of family traditions.
The fun of sending greetings, Christmas cards, and presents also emphasizes choosing the best words to convey your feelings. That’s where our collection of quotations below can help. Sending holiday love is easier.
Here are some famous quotations that will brighten up all the hearts you touch this holiday season.
Quotes about Christmas
1.) Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B.C. Forbes
2.) One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney
3.) The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.
Unknown
4.) Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Winston Churchill
5.) Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
Merry Christmas Sayings
6.) Heap on the wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Walter Scott, Sr.
7.) Give Christmas love throughout the year.
Susan Beasley
8.) The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hills
9.) Christmas hearts find a reason to give all year round.
Andy Atticus
10.) 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 at my house.
Tom Hanks
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Traditional Xmas Quotations
11.) Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on Earth and Heaven at last for all of us.
Charles Dickens
12.) The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes
13.) Christmas hearts are for opening up, just like presents.
Andy Atticus
Merry and Bright Insights on the Holidays
14.) A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear; best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry Christmas!
John Greenleaf Whittier
15.) My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob Hope
16.) I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirits in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
17.) This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
Taylor Caldwell
18.) Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Ralph Blane
19.) God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
Pope Francis
Christmas Season Quotations
20.) Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher
21.) Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
W. J. Cameron
22.) Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind, and that’s what’s been changing. That’s why I’m glad I’m here; maybe I can do something about it.
Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
23.) It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer; we smile a little easier, and we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.
Frank Cross (Bill Murray), National Lampoon
24.) Christmas = The feel-good season.
Andy Atticus
25.) When we were children, we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G.K. Chesterton
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Funny Christmas Quotes
26.) Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’
Bing Crosby
27.) I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces, and finally, they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
28.) I think Xmas is a wonderful time for drinking. And also after and before Xmas plus all the other days.
Unknown
29.) Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson
30.) Why is Xmas just like a day at the office?
You do all the work, and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.
Unknown
31.) Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.
Tom Sims
Really Funny Christmas Quotes
32.) There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck
33.) Once again, we come to the holiday season – a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Dave Barry
34.) When Santa Claus heard that you’ve been good this year, he died laughing.
Unknown
35.) The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Johnny Carson
Humorous Noel Quotations
Here are some very funny Christmas quotes.
36.) Next to a circus, there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
37.) I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, So does the guy I stole it from.
David Letterman
38.) The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Johnny Carson
39.) Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas Quotations
What Christmas quotes collection would be complete without something from the Grinch?
40.) And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling; how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags – It came without packages, boxes, or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
Dr. Seuss
41.) Cindy Lou Who: Your cheek’s so…
The Grinch: I know. Hairy.
Cindy Lou Who: No.
The Grinch: Greasy? Stinky? Do I have a zit?
Cindy Lou Who: No. Warm.
The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who
42.) Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Dr. Seuss
43.) Blast this Christmas music. It’s joyful and triumphant.
The Grinch
44.) And they’ll feast, feast, feast, feast. They’ll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But there’s something I just cannot stand in the least… Oh no. I’m SPEAKING IN RHYME.
The Grinch
45.) Santa, don’t forget the Grinch. I know he’s mean and hairy and smelly, and his hands are cold and clammy, but I think he’s kinda… sweet.
Cindy Lou Who
Christmas Eve Sayings
46.) Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
47.) Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
Charlotte Carpenter
48.) Christmas Eve ought to be a very joyful evening to us in all its associations, in all the truths which it naturally brings to the soul… A man’s soul is to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up and saw them full of angels as well as stars.
Henry Ward Beecher
Religious
49.) Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
George W Truett
50.) I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!
Charles Dickens
51.) Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
Phillips Brooks
52.) Bless us, Lord, this Christmas, with the quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Helen Steiner Rice
53.) Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.
Henry Van Dyke
54.) Mankind is a great, immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John Paul XXIII
Christmas Sayings
55.) I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Charles Dickens
56.) Here’s to the God of the present (Raise your glasses), Here’s to the God of the past (Drink to the King) Here’s to the hope in the future He brings. We will sing to Him, sing to Him on the Saviour’s Day.
Cliff Richard
57.) It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
Mother Teresa
58.) Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year.
Unknown
Xmas Quotes
59.) All I want for Christmas is you.
Unknown
60.) When Santa asks me what I want, I just have to say your name.
Unknown
61.) Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of the children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde
62.) Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with a wintry night.
John Geddes
63.) There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest.
Charles Dickens
64.) But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will do me good; and I say, God, bless it!
Charles Dickens
Inspirational Christmas Quotes
65.) Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold; everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
66.) When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
67.) Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton
68.) Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.
The Polar Express
69.) Christmas may be a day of feasting or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance — a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
Augusta E. Randel
70.) Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
Edna Ferber
Christmas Spirit
71.) What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.
Agnes M. Pharo
72.) Christmas is like candy: it slowly melts in your mouth, sweetening every taste bud, and making you wish it could last forever.
Richelle E. Goodrich
73.) Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
74.) Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow; they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.
Tom Baker
75.) 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
76.) I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
Christmas Cheer
77.) At Christmas, play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser
78.) Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
79.) Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and too soon gone.
Deborah Whipp
80.) I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
Irving Berlin
81.) Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
82.) Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
83.) Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas Blessings
84.) At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes
85.) It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Theresa
86.) Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie
87.) You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell Him you have received His Christmas gift.
John R. Rice
88.) Just remember the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.
The Polar Express
Christmas Magic
89.) A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
90.) Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore
91.) For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, and home.
W. J. Tucker
92.) The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned, and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
Louisa May Alcott
93.) Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Short Christmas Quotes
94.) Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings, exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.
Norman Vincent Peale
95.) The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.
Richard Paul Evans
96.) Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young
97.) Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Unknown
98.) What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller
99.) Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.
Valentine Davies
Christmas Quotes from Famous Authors
100.) Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold; everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
101.) The Xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten and repair damaged relationships.
Mark Twain
102.) Have a holly, jolly Christmas!
Burl Ives
103.) Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles M. Schulz
104.) I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
105.) He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
106.) At Christmas, I no more desire a rose than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth.
William Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost
107.) Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers
Mark Twain’s Christmas Wish (published in 1890)
108.) It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us – the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage – may, eventually be gathered together in heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss – except the inventor of the telephone.
Christmas Movie Quotes
109.) Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Zuzu Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life
110.) Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Doris Walker, Miracle on 34th Street
111.) The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
Will Ferrell, Elf
112.) Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
113.) Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back.
Kevin, Home Alone
114.) Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day; it’s a frame of mind – and that’s what’s been changing. That’s why I’m glad I’m here; maybe I can do something about it.
Kris Kringle, Miracle on 34th Street
115.) I want an Official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range model air rifle.
Ralphie, A Christmas Story
116.) Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. And when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?
Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life
117.) Bah, humbug!
Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
More Movie Quotations
118.) Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas – perhaps – means a little bit more?
The Grinch
119.) This is the most beautiful-est, most wonderful-est Christmas ever.
Sarah, The Polar Express
120.) We need to show people that a true, selfless act always sparks another.
Klaus, Klaus
121.) I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year!
Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
122.) There was more than one lobster at the birth of Jesus?
Karen, Love Always
123.) I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.
Linus Van Pelt, A Charlie Brown Christmas
124.) I realized that Christmas is the time to be with people you love.
Billy Mack, Love Actually
125.) Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Fred Gailey, Miracle on 34th Street
Nightmare Before Christmas Quotes (The Movie)
126.) Jack: We take an oversized sock And hang it like this on a wall.
Mr. Hyde: Oh, yes! Does it still have afoot?
Smaller Mr. Hyde: Let me see, let me look!
Smallest Mr. Hyde: Is it rotted and covered with gook?!
127.) Eureka! I’ve got it! This year Xmas will be ours!
Oh, how horrible our Xmas will be!
Nooo, how Jolly our Xmas will be.
128.) Since I am dead, I can take off my head to recite Shakespearean quotations.
129.) There are children throwing snowballs; instead of throwing heads, they’re busy building toys, And absolutely no one’s dead.
130.) I sense there’s something in the wind that feels like a tragedy at hand. And though I’d like to stand by him, can’t shake this feeling that we have. The worst is just around the bend, and does he notice my feelings for him? And will he see how much he means to me? I think it’s not to be.
Christmas Story Quotations – The Movie
131.) It’s a major award! It’s a beautiful duck; it really is. But you see, it’s smiling at me!
132.) Well, I double-dog-dare ya! Now it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a triple dare ya? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare. I triple-dog-dare ya! Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!
133.) Mr. Parker: What is the name of the Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse?
Mother: Ah… Victor! His name is Victor.
Mr. Parker: How the hell did you know that?
Mother: Everybody knows that!
Mother: Is this another one of your silly puzzles?
Mr. Parker: Yeah, another one of my silly puzzles. This one could be worth FIFTY THOUSAND BUCKS.
Mother: What is it this time?
Mr. Parker: Name the great characters in American literature.
Mr. Parker: Victor? The Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse?
134.) In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
Comedian Christmas Quotes
135.) My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my family and eating a big meal. And then fighting over the leftovers.
Amy Schumer
136.) Christmas is the time of year when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
David Letterman
137.) Christmas is the time of year when we come together to worship Santa Claus.
Ellen DeGeneres
138.) Christmas is the time of year when we realize that the true meaning of Christmas is not about the presents, but about the people we love. But we still buy presents anyway.
Jim Gaffigan
139.) I love Christmas. It’s the one time of year when it’s socially acceptable to drink in the morning.
Amy Schumer
140.) I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.
Steven Wright
141.) One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.
Louis C.K.
142.) The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
Joan Rivers
Funny Short Christmas Takes
143.) Dear Santa, I can explain.
144.) Your presents is requested.
145.) Make it Rein.
146.) Happy Mariah Carey Day!
147.) Too bad we can’t gift-wrap common sense.
148.) Permanently on the Naughty List and loving every minute of it.
149.) Nothing says Christmas like a cheese log.
150.) The elf did it!
Christmas Quotes FAQs
Here are some frequently asked questions about Christmas quotes.
Bart Simpson said, “Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.”
Victor Borge said, “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
Yes, the villainous Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, says, “It’s Christmas, Theo; it’s a time for miracles.”
It is decidedly so.
Final Thoughts On Christmas Quotes
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By Mike O’Halloran
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