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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
- Christmas
There has been only one Christmas⁠—the rest are anniversaries.
WCW.J. Cameron
- Christmas
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917), p. 59
- Happiness
- Thanksgiving
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.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Reported in
- Christmas
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), “Ebeneezer Scrooge”, in A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensIn context
- Christmas
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Christmas
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens1812–1870
- Christmas
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
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Christmas
God bless us every one!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Christmas
- God
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IVIn context
- Christmas
- Time
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
- Happiness
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
- Christmas
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
- Christmas