Christmas Quotes

“I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.”

Charles Dickens

“There never was such a goose.”

Charles Dickens

“The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek.”

Charles Dickens

“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”

Charles Dickens

“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”

Charles Dickens

“Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage.”

Charles Dickens

“Welcome, everything! Welcome, alike what has been, and what never was, and what we hope may be, to your shelter underneath the holly, to your places round the Christmas fire.”

Charles Dickens

“It is a beautiful arrangement, derived from days of yore, that this festival, which commemorates the announcement of the religion of peace and love, has been made the season for gathering together of family connections.”

Washington Irving

“Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, draw forth the cheerful day from night.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

O. Henry

“Merry Christmas, Marmee! Many of them!”

Louisa May Alcott

“Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!”

Eugene Field

“But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!”

Eugene Field

“To an open house in the evening home shall men come, to an older place than Eden and a taller town than Rome.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Come, bring with a noise, my merry, merry boys, the Christmas log to the firing.”

Robert Herrick

“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”

William Shakespeare

“Shut in from all the world without, we sat the clean-winged hearth about.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

“Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, please to put a penny in the old man's hat.”

Mother Goose

“O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, how lovely are thy branches!”

Traditional Carol

“While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground.”

Nahum Tate

“Once in royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed.”

Cecil Frances Alexander

“Up on the housetop reindeer pause, out jumps good old Santa Claus.”

Benjamin Hanby

“Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, lean your ear this way!”

Traditional Carol

“Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green.”

Traditional Carol

“Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.”

Traditional Carol