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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday⁠—the longer, the better⁠—from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
Charles Dickens1812–1870“A Christmas Tree”
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
WCW.J. Cameron
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
RSRoy L. Smith1887–1963
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home.
CNCarol Nelson
There has been only one Christmas⁠—the rest are anniversaries.
WCW.J. Cameron
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard1868–1930In: The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes, Constable & Robinson, 1 March 2012, p. 145
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Telegraph to Abraham Lincoln (December 1864), as quoted in Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea (2008), by Noah Andre Trudeau, New York: HarperCollins, p. 508.
- War & Peace
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 9:6
- God
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller1880–1968“Christmas in the Dark” in Ladies Home Journal (December 1906)
Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity.
Harlan Ellison1934–2018“No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!” (1972) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
- Comedy
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Fear and Loathing in Elko” Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)
- Comedy
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
God bless us every one!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- God