Quotes about Christmas

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"
-Charles Dickens

"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

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
-Roy L. Smith

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas."
-Robert Lynd

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
-Alexander Smith

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

"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

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included."
-Bernard Manning

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

"Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping."
-Jon Anderson

"Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months."
-Oren Arnold

"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."
-Phillip Brooks

"Consider Christmas—could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating—all in the name of the lowly Jesus?"
-Upton Sinclair

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

"Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words."
-Harlan Miller

"Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip."
-Gary Allan

"'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!"
-Carolyn Wells

"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
-Franklin Pierce Adams

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
-Benjamin Franklin

"We finished December quite well. Between Christmas and the new year, we were really busy."
-Richard Dixon

"You have to pick things that people will like around Christmas."
-Andrew Shields

"From here through Christmas things will get pretty quiet."
-Gilberto Zalfa

"If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?"
-Don Meredith

"Christmas is one of the biggest times of the year for shared viewing."
-Jana Bennett

"I can't wait to go see him. It's like Christmas."
-Hope Trent

"Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion."
-Ralph Bergengren

"It represents our beliefs. For us, it's what the real meaning of Christmas is all about."
-Lorraine Gritzen

"This is usually a slow time, the lull after Christmas."
-Aaron Robinson