120 Christmas Quotes to Help You Celebrate the Beautify Day

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on the Twelfth Night.

Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world’s nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it.

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120 Christmas Quotes

The unique pleasures of giving, and even how we might celebrate the most important aspects of Christmas throughout the year. See our Christmas quotes, if you need an additional push for this fantastic season.

30 Quotes About Christmas

1. “The best and Most Beautiful things in the World cannot be Seen or Even Touched. They must be felt with the Heart.” – Helen Keller

2. “Christmas is like Candy; it slowly Melts in your Mouth Sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could Last Forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

3. “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

4. “Joy to the World, the Lord has come, let Earth receive her King.” – “Joy to the World”

5. “Peace on Earth will come to stay when we Live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

6. “Christmas is the Season for Kindling the Fire of Hospitality.” – Washington Irving

7. “If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.” – Ernest Hemingway

8. “Your Children need your Presence more than your Presents.” – Jesse Jackson

9. “Mail your packages early so the Post Office can lose them in Time for Christmas.” – Johnny Carson

10. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is Singing Loud for all to hear.” – Will Ferrell

11. “Freshly cut Christmas trees Smelling of Stars and Snow and Sine Resin—inhale deeply and fill your Soul with Wintry Night.” – John J. Geddes

12. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand Heart to Heart and Hand in Hand.” – Dr. Seuss

13. “I will honor Christmas in my Heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

14. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.” – Nora Roberts

15. “Gifts of Time and Love are surely the basic ingredients of a Truly Merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken

16. “Walking in a Winter Wonderland.” – Winter Wonderland

17. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith

18. “One can never have enough socks,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a Single Pair. People will insist on giving me Books.’” – J. K. Rowling

19. “Blessed is the season which engages the Whole World in a conspiracy of Love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

20. “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we Celebrate it by giving the Light of Love to those who need it most.” – Ruth Carter Stapleton

21. “And so this is Christmas… what have you done?” — John Lennon

22. “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

23. “Some Christmas tree Ornaments do more than Glitter and Glow, they represent a Gift of Love given a Long time ago.” – Tom Baker

24. “Christmas isn’t a Season. It’s a Feeling.” – Edna Ferber

25. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a Creature was Stirring, not even a Mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore

26. “Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them Happy; who gives himself by Thought or Word or Deed in every gift that he Bestows.” – Edwin Osgood Grover

27. “A joy that is shared is a Joy made Double.” – John Roy

28. “Christmas works like Glue. It keeps us all Sticking Together.” – Rosie Thomas

29. “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

30. “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.” – Irving Berlin

30 Quotes for Christmas

31. “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

32. “Christmas gives us the Opportunity to Pause and Reflect on the important things around us.” – David Cameron

33. “As for me, I like to take my Christmas a Little at a Time, all through the year.” – David Grayson

34. “Remembrance, like a candle, burns Brightest at Christmastime.” – Charles Dickens

35. “Love the giver more than the Gift.” — Brigham Young

36. “At Christmas, all Roads Lead Home.” – Marjorie Holmes

37. “Mankind is a great, Immense Family. This is proved by what we feel in our Hearts at Christmas.” – Pope John XXIII

38. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz

39. “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

40. “A good Conscience is a Continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin

41. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a Happy Family all Wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hills

42. “God goes to those who have time to hear him—and so on this Cloudless night he went to simple Shepherds.” – Max Lucado

43. “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

44. “As we struggle with Shopping Lists and Invitations, compounded by December’s Bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this Aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.” – Donald E. Westlake

45. “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our Hearts.” – Janice Maeditere

46. “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

47. “We are better throughout the year for having, in Spirit, become a Child again at Christmastime.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

48. “Every time we Love, every time we Give, it’s Christmas.” – Dale Evans

49. “And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is Darkest, the Wind Coldest, the world seemingly most Indifferent…” – Taylor Caldwell

50. “Aren’t we forgetting the true Meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.” – Bart Simpson

51. “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

52. “It’s not how much we give but how much Love we put into Giving.” – Mother Theresa

53. “May your Hearth be warm, your Holidays grand, and your Heart held gently in the Good Lord’s hand.” – Unknown

54. “As we give Presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and Ourselves is such an important part of Giving.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

55. “Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of Greed.” – Ann Garnett Schultz

56. “Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, Mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper, and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of Reckless Extravagance.” – Tove Jansson

57. “Christmas to me is as many people as possible Happy.” – Tupac Shakur

58. “What is Christmas? It is Tenderness for the past, Courage for the Present, Hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro

59. “May you never be too Grown up to search the Skies on Christmas Eve.” – Anonymous

60. “May your days be Merry and Bright.” – White Christmas

30 Quotes about Christmas

61. “Like Snowflakes, my Christmas memories Gather and Dance – each Beautiful, Unique, and gone too soon.” – Deborah Whipp

62. “Seeing is Believing, but sometimes the most Real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” – ‘The Polar Express’

63. ”Christmas and the Holidays is the season of Giving. It’s a time when people are more Kind and Open-Hearted.” – Gisele Bundchen

64. “Peace on Earth will come to Stay, when we Live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

65. “He who has not Christmas in his Heart will never find it under a Tree.” – Roy L. Smith

66. “Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.” – Anonymous

67. “Christmas is a season for Kindling the Fire for Hospitality in the Hall, the Genial Flame of charity in the Heart.” – Washington Irving

68. “My brother, little sister and I decorate the tree together, and every year we Fight over who gets to hang our Handmade Childhood decorations.” – Carly Rae Jepsen

69. “Christmas is a time when everybody wants his Past Forgotten and his Present Remembered.” – Phyllis Diller

70. “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our Blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘White.’” – Bing Crosby

71. “There’s a certain magic that comes with the very First Snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something Wonderful is bound to happen.” — Frosty the Snowman

72. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a Thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor

73. “Now the God of hope fill you with all Joy and Peace in believing that ye may abound in Hope, through the Power of the Holy Ghost.” – Romans 15:13

74. “Christmas waves a Magic Wand over this world, and behold, everything is Softer and more Beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

75. “Even as an Adult, I still find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve.” – Carrie Latet

76. “Three Wise Women would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, bought practical Gifts, cleaned the stable, made a Casserole, and there would be Peace on Earth!” – Anonymous

77. “Thanks be unto God for his Unspeakable Gift.” – 2 Corinthians 9:15

78. “Don’t get your Tinsel in a Tangle.” – Unknown

79. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of Children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde

80. “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.” – David Jeremiah

81. “As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.” – Eric Sevareid

82. “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

83. “Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.” – Kin Hubbard

84. “May the Hope, the Peace, the Joy, and the Love represented by the Birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do.” – Rev. Richard J. Fairchild

85. “Christmas isn’t just a day—it’s a Frame of Mind.” – Miracle on 34th Street

86. “Do give books – Religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, Seldom Sinful, and Permanently Personal.” – Lenore Hershey

87. “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

88. “What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the Past with the Present.” – Don Marquis

89. “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young

90. “Christmas is a Baby Shower that went totally Overboard.” – Andy Borowitz

30 Best Christmas Wishes

91. “Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your Mouth Sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

92. “Christmas, here again. Let us raise a Loving Cup; Peace on earth, Goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.” – Wendy Cope

93. “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” – Victor Borge

94. “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” – Stephen Graham Jones

95. “Christmas is forever, not for just One day. For Loving, Sharing, Giving, are not to put away.” – Norman Wesley Brooks

96. “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

97. “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

98. “The world has grown Weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is Young.” – Phillips Brooks

99. “Christmas is a piece of one’s Home that one carries in one’s Heart.” – Freya Stark

100. “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

101. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a Thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor

102. “I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful Presents I can’t wait to Exchange.” – Henny Youngman

103. “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

104. “Christmas is a time when you get Homesick – even when you’re Home.” – Carol Nelson

105. “The joy of Brightening other lives becomes for us the Magic of the Holidays.” — W.C. Jones

106. “Guardian angel pure and bright, please lead Santa here tonight.” – Unknown

107. “Christmas is a day of Meaning and Traditions, a special day spent in the Warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher

108. “Christmas magic is Silent. You Don’t Hear it – You Feel it. You Know it. You Believe it.” – Kevin Alan Milne

109. “Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.” – Winnie the Pooh

110. “It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a Message to the World about where you were in life.” — Nick Hornby

111. “I won’t ask for much this Christmas. I won’t even wish for Snow. And I’m just gonna keep on Waiting, Underneath the Mistletoe.” – Mariah Carey

112. “If you want to Experience the true meaning of Christmas, give something to someone who can offer Nothing in Return.” – Toni Sorenson

113. “Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine, Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign.” – Christina Rossetti

114. “Love is what is in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Anon

115. “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” – Richard Paul Evans

116. ”The best way to spread Christmas cheer is Singing Loud for all to hear.” – Elf

117. “Gifts of Time and Love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly Merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken

118. “Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than a pizza. But instead of all her favorite Toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.” – Aishabella Sheikh

119. “Christmas waves a Magic Wand over this world, and behold, everything is Softer and more Beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

120. “He sees you when you’re Sleeping, he knows when you’re Awake. He knows when you’ve been Bad or Good, so be Good, for Goodness Sake!” – “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”