Quotes about holidays
75 quotes from 48 people
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 9:6
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 22: LoversHail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is;
All the air is thy diocese.
John Donne1572–1631An Epithalamion…on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being Married on St. Valentine’s Day (1613)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)
Harlan Ellison1934–2018“No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!” (1972) The Harlan Ellison HornbookNo one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917), p. 59
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Fear and Loathing in Elko” Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)
