Christmas Quotes
Christmas is celebrated annually on the 25th of December. Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, it is a season of love, laughter and light. Embrace all things merry and bright this Christmas and don’t forget to spread the love to your family, friends and loved ones.
Below, we have compiled a list of the best Christmas quotes ever to help you get in the spirit and remind you the reason for the season.
50 Awesome Christmas Quotes & Sayings
“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
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” —Edna Ferber
“Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
“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
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hills
“Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” ― Pope John XXIII
“Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.” — The Polar Express
“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.” — Carrie Fisher
“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
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith
“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” – Theodor Seuss Geisel
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp
“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
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” – Dale Evans
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.” – Bing Crosby
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Suess
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro
“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
“Christmas now surrounds us, Happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air.” – Shirley Sallay
“The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.” – Phillips Brooks
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”― Steve Maraboli
“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton
“Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.” ~ Martin Luther
“I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.” – Eloisa James
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” ―Peg Bracken
“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
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis
“That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their blackberry, they just happen.” – Deck the Halls
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year” ~ Thomas Tusser
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
And so, seven hundred years before the Wise Men gave, before the angels sang, and before the shepherds arrived, Isaiah explains for us in wonderful detail what Christmas is all about.__Daniel Akin
When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special.__Catherine Pulsifer
We send out Christmas greetings to friends and family near and far, we put up the tree in hopes Santa will arrive, but most of all we take the time to thank God for His Son. Kate Summers
“Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.” ~ Helen Steiner Rice
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”― G.K. Chesterton
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. ~ Emily Matthews
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
“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
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” – Harlan Miller
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And wild and sweet, the words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
“There’s nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.” ― Jenny Han
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
Funny Christmas Quotes
“Christmas is a magical time of the year… I just watched all my money magically disappear.” – Unknown
“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.” – Andy Borowitz
“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
“I hate the radio this time of year because they play “All I Want For Christmas Is You” like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.” – Bridger Winegar
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde
“Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?” – Arlo Guthrie
“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
“Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.” – Author Unknown
“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.” – Fanny Wright
“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.” – Frank McKinney Hubbard
“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” – Victor Borge
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple
“Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.” – Andy Borowitz
“One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales.” – Grace Kriley
“There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That’s it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox.” – Anthony Jeselnik
“I left Santa gluten-free cookies and organic soy milk and he put a solar panel in my stocking.” – Unknown
“Let me see if I’ve got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn’t laundering illegal drug money?” – Tom Armstrong
“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.” – Lenore Hershey
“There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?” – Conan O’Brien