Famous Christmas Quotes

There is something about Christmas that makes everyone feel spirited, happy, and excited. Christmas brings out the child within. The festive air is contagious; even the most despairing soul cannot help but feel enthused by the vibrancy of the season. Happy holidays! Enjoy your eggnog while you read these famous Christmas quotes.

• Deborah Whipp
  Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance -- each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

• Mary Ellen Chase
  Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

• John Greenleaf Whittier
  For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through,
  The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.

• Charles Dickens
  I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

• Janice Maeditere
  Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

• W. J. Cameron
  Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year -- and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!

• Shirley Temple
  I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

• Walter Scott, Sr.
  Heap on the wood! the wind is chill;
  But let it whistle as it will,
  We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

• Helen Keller
  The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

• Norman Vincent Peale
  Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

• Alexander Smith
  Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

• Hamilton Wright Mabi
  Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

• Christina G. Rossetti
  Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.

• Calvin Coolidge
  Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.