2022's Merriest Christmas Card Quotes From Famous Authors
Winter is the perfect time to start cultivating reading habits in your family. So stop looking for excuses about there not being enough time and get yourself and your kid a lovely book to read! We've made a list of the most beautiful quotes about Christmas, found in books by famous authors.
Check them out and get inspired to write the best Christmas card for your family members and friends. Have an intellectual Christmas, everybody!
βWhere art thou, Mother Christmas?
Roald Dahl
I only wish I knew
Why Father should get all the praise
And no-one mentions youβ
βAt Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friendβs house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.β
Jane Austen, Emma
βThe rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.β
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
βBlessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!β
Hamilton Wright Mabie
βOne can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didnβt get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.β
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcererβs Stone
βI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.β
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
βI ask you to answer me fairly: is not additional eating an ordinary Englishmanβs ordinary idea of Christmas day?β
Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
βA lovely thing about Christmas is that itβs compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.β
Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
βIβve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.β
Maya Angelou
βChristmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance.β
Tove Jansson
βIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.β
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
βI donβt want Christmas season to end, because itβs the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.β
Eloisa James, Paris in Love
βMiracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.β
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
βIt struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.β
Nick Hornby, About A Boy
βFine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.β
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
βPray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.β
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Kickleburrys on the Rhine
βChristmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.β
G.K. Chesterton, Brave New Family
βTo perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.β Β
E.B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner
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Don't forget:
βThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places youβll go.β