20 Fun Christmas Quotes

We've listed twenty festive quotes from famous people. For our New Year Quotes for inspiration and a new start.

The best quotes we could find about Christmas. Quotes from real life, literature, film and television. Use in your quizzes or simply read and enjoy. Our favourite is Shirley Temple's!

Christmas Quotes

1. "Always winter but never Christmas." – C.S. Lewis, Mr. Tumnus in the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
2. "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope
3. "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." - Mother Theresa





4. "I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood." - Taylor Swift
5. "It's a right blinding Christmas this has turned out to be, innit! I mean, some people get wise men bearing gifts; we get a wally with a disease!" - Del Boy, Only Fools and Horses
6. "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
7. "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." - Shirley Temple
8. "Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’." - Bing Crosby
9. "T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." - Clement Clarke Moore
10. "The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school." - Alice Cooper
11. "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive." - Stephen Fry
12. "You can't fool me, there ain't no Sanity Clause." - Chico Marx
13. "Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection." - Winston Churchil
14. "Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?" – Bart Simpson
15. "In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that unmistakeable light, coming up from the earth and shining between her curtains." - Stella Gibbons, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
16. "One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." – Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
17. "Love the giver more than the gift." - Brigham Young
18. “How can you give Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What’s next, rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?” – Santa Claus in Home Alone
19. "For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first." - Queen Elizabeth II
20. "There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas." – Charles Dickens