“No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold. Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!”
Charles Dickens
Christmas MorningJoy
Christmas Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHRISTMAS
Christmas Quotes
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.
“Christmas a humbug, uncle! You don't mean that, I am sure?”
Charles Dickens
Christmas SpiritFunny
“Spirit, conduct me where you will. If you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”
Charles Dickens
LearningTransformation
“There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain.”
Charles Dickens
CheerfulnessWinter
“He had never dreamed that any walk - that anything - could give him so much happiness.”
Charles Dickens
HappinessTransformation
“Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it's Fezziwig alive again!”
Charles Dickens
MemoriesJoy
“Numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.”
Charles Dickens
HappinessChristmas Spirit
“May that be truly said of us, and all of us!”
Charles Dickens
Christmas WishesChristmas Spirit
“Nothing in England exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingering of the holiday customs.”
Washington Irving
TraditionNostalgia
“He who can turn churlishly away from contemplating the felicity of his fellow beings, when all around is joyful, wants the genial and social sympathies which constitute the charm of a merry Christmas.”
Washington Irving
JoyTogetherness
“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.”
Walter Scott
CharityCelebration
“With trembling fingers did we weave the holly round the Christmas hearth.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
DecorationsMemories
“Ring out, ye crystal spheres, once bless our human ears.”
John Milton
MusicNativity
“What sweeter music can we bring than a carol, for to sing the birth of this our heavenly King?”
Robert Herrick
CarolsFaith
“As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow.”
Robert Southwell
WinterFaith
“So now is come our joyful feast, let every man be jolly.”
George Wither
FeastCelebration
“Before the paling of the stars, before the winter morn, before the earliest cock-crow, Jesus Christ was born.”
Christina Rossetti
NativityChristmas Morning
“The minstrels played their Christmas tune to-night beneath my cottage-eaves.”
William Wordsworth
MusicChristmas Eve
“The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
WinterChristmas At Sea
“Now then the splendour will begin.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Christmas TreeExcitement
“Your loving Santa Claus, whom people sometimes call 'The Man in the Moon.'”
Mark Twain
Santa ClausFunny
“It's so dreadful to be poor!”
Louisa May Alcott
GivingFamily
“He rules the world with truth and grace.”
Isaac Watts
FaithCarols
“Let every heart prepare Him room.”
Isaac Watts
FaithWelcome
“Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation.”
Frederick Oakeley
AngelsWorship