200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHRISTMAS
Read 200 of the best Christmas quotes, wishes and blessings for cards and captions, from A Christmas Carol, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and classic carols.
“I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
Charles Dickens
“He knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.”
Charles Dickens
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.”
Charles Dickens
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Charles Dickens
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Charles Dickens
“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”
Charles Dickens
“I wear the chain I forged in life.”
Charles Dickens
“Bah! Humbug!”
Charles Dickens
“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding.”
Charles Dickens
“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
Charles Dickens
“That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused by the recurrence of Christmas.”
Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
Charles Dickens
“'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Clement Clarke Moore
“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.”
Clement Clarke Moore
“The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.”
Clement Clarke Moore
“He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook when he laugh'd, like a bowl full of jelly.”
Clement Clarke Moore
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
Clement Clarke Moore
“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
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on earth, good-will to men.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone.”
Christina Rossetti
“What can I give Him, poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. Yet what I can I give Him, give my heart.”
Christina Rossetti
“Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine.”
Christina Rossetti
“Joy to the world! the Lord is come; let earth receive her King.”
Isaac Watts
“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!”
Phillips Brooks
Christmas is the season of joy, giving, family and warm hearts. Across the world, people celebrate with lights, carols, gifts and time with loved ones, and for many it is also a sacred celebration of the birth of Jesus. The right words can capture all of that magic in a card, a message or a caption.
This collection brings together 200 of the best Christmas quotes from classic stories, poems, carols and timeless sources, including Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti and the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter. You will find heartwarming Christmas wishes, funny lines, faith-filled blessings and quotes about the true spirit of Christmas.
Quick answers about Christmas quotes.
"God bless us, every one!" from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and "'Twas the night before Christmas" from Clement Clarke Moore's poem are two of the most famous Christmas lines ever written. Luke 2:14, "on earth peace, good will toward men," is another beloved classic.
Calvin Coolidge's "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind" and Christina Rossetti's "Love came down at Christmas" are warm choices. For a playful card, try "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
It comes from an 1897 New York Sun editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church, replying to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon. He wrote that Santa exists "as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist," celebrating faith, wonder and imagination.
Popular lines include Scrooge's "Bah! Humbug!", Marley's "Mankind was my business," and the closing line that Scrooge "knew how to keep Christmas well." Fred's description of Christmas as a "kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time" is a perfect summary of the season.
The key nativity verses are Luke 2:7, 2:11 and 2:14, along with Matthew 1:23, which names the child "Emmanuel, God with us." Matthew 2:11 describes the wise men's gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Try "Joy to the world!", "Silent night, holy night," "Love came down at Christmas," or "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." They work well with tree, family and holiday photos.