The tree is up, the lights are tangled, and someone is already asking what time dinner is. Christmas has a way of turning an ordinary December evening into the warmest night of the year.
This collection of Christmas Quotes brings together the lines people actually reach for in December — for cards, captions, table toasts and quiet moments by the tree. Classic voices sit alongside short card verses and brand-new wishes you can send as they are.
The best Christmas lines are not really about presents at all. They are about giving without counting, coming home from far away, and holding one generous day up against the whole rest of the year.
In this blog post, I’ve shared 65 Christmas lines in five sections — classics, giving and kindness, home and family, short card verses, and merry wishes. So, pour something warm, settle in, and find the words your Christmas has been waiting for.
13 Classic Christmas Quotes from Books, Poems & Timeless Voices
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
God bless us, every one!
Charles Dickens
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
Edna Ferber
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
Calvin Coolidge
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes
Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
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13 Inspirational Christmas Quotes About Giving, Love & Kindness
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Janice Maeditere
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
Thomas S. Monson
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.
Bob Hope
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.
Bing Crosby
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves.
B.C. Forbes
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
Agnes M. Pahro
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles M. Schulz
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid
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13 Heartwarming Christmas Quotes About Home, Family & Togetherness
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!
Dr. Seuss
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home.
Carol Nelson
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
G.K. Chesterton
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another, the warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young.
Phillips Brooks
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
Buddy the Elf
Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.
The Conductor, The Polar Express
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving are not to put away.
Norman Wesley Brooks
T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore
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13 Short Christmas Quotes for Cards, Letters & Captions
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke 2:14
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Isaac Watts
Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.
Joseph Mohr
For Christmas is tradition time — traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.
Helen Lowrie Marshall
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
Gladys Taber
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.
Larry Wilde
Love came down at Christmas, love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, star and angels gave the sign.
Christina Rossetti
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; it makes no noise at all, but softly gives itself away.
Eva Logue
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness.
Thomas S. Monson
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; the spirit of Christmas which is peace; the heart of Christmas which is love.
Ada V. Hendricks
Wishing you a Christmas bright with hope, warm with love, and shared with the people who feel like home.
Unknown
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13 Merry Christmas Wishes & Blessings to Share
Merry Christmas! May your home fill with laughter, your table with good food, and your heart with everyone you love most.
Unknown
Wishing you a Christmas morning that starts slowly, with warm drinks, bright lights and nowhere else you need to be.
Unknown
May the lights on your tree be bright, the carols familiar, and the people around you the ones you would choose again every year.
Unknown
Sending you a Christmas wish wrapped in gratitude: thank you for being part of my favourite memories this year.
Unknown
May your Christmas be calm where you need rest, joyful where you need light, and gentle in all the ways that matter.
Unknown
Here is to full plates, full hearts and a sofa full of the people who make Christmas feel like Christmas.
Unknown
Wishing you peace that lasts longer than the holidays and hope that carries you into the new year.
Unknown
May every gift you give return to you as kindness, and every card you open remind you how loved you are.
Unknown
Merry Christmas to the ones near, the ones far, and the ones we carry in our hearts wherever we gather.
Unknown
May your home smell of cinnamon and pine, sound like laughter, and feel like the safest place in the world.
Unknown
Wishing you twelve months of the Christmas spirit: generosity in January, gratitude in June, and love all year round.
Unknown
May the star that guided travellers long ago guide you home safely to everyone waiting for you this Christmas.
Unknown
From our home to yours: merry Christmas, happy holidays, and may the new year meet you with open arms.
Unknown
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Keep this page open all December. Copy a line into a card, read one aloud before dinner, or send one to someone who cannot be home this year — the right Christmas words travel any distance.
