Christmas Quotes from Great Writers
Season's Holiday Quotations from Authors and Poets
Quotations are a special way to describe how a person feels. Here are chosen timeless Christmas quotes from great classic authors and poets. May they inspire our hearts and minds to the wonderful season of love, the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Christmas Quotes from Famous Writers
"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 (1832-1888)
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973)
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!" - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." - Edna Ferber (1885-1968)
"I do like Christmas on the whole… In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year." - E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." - Washington Irving (1783-1859)
"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another, but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"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!"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December." - Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
"Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign."
- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
"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 (1912-1995)
"Heap on the wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will. We'll keep our Christmas merry still." - Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
"At Christmas, I no more desire a rose." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year." - E.B. White (1899-1985)
"Somehow, not only for Christmas, but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others, is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessings, the poor and lonely and sad, the more of your heart's possessing, returns to you glad." - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
A joyous and blessed Christmas to everyone!
Christmas Quotes from Writers and Poets
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