Christmas Quotes

• "I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor'! They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now!"
  By: Clive Staples Lewis
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• "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want—and their kids pay for it."
  By: Richard Lamm
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• "Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."
  By: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
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• "Let this Christmas season be a renewing of the mind and a cleansing of our lives by God's pure presence. Let His joy come to our weary world through us."
  By: Gerald Kennedy
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• "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
  By: Washington Irving
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• "Christmas is the family time, the good time of the year."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed—the four-poster—I'll be needing that to die in."
  By: Helen Hayes
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• "When you get to be a certain age, you come to realize that the real Santa Claus is not the guy who comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The real spirit of Santa becomes what you can give rather than what you get. The magic comes from you when Santa lives in your heart."
  By: Patty Hansen
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• "I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidayslet them overtake me unexpectedlywaking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: Why this is Christmas Day!"
  By: David Grayson (1890-1990)
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• "Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better."
  By: Arnold Glasow
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• "Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born!' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night."
  By: Garry Gamble
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• "God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith, the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity."
  By: Wilda English
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• "Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
  By: T.S. Eliot
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• "Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy."
  By: Alistair Cooke
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