Blissful Words | The Best Merry Christmas Quotes of All Time

An established Christian celebration and a time of gratitude and forgiveness, Christmas has also turned into a universally accepted holiday season – and, admittedly, a time for the shopping spree of the year! Such a big event is inevitably food for thought and a great opportunity for commentators to comment on and for writers to write about. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States said about Christmas: “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.”

In commemoration of this year’s celebrations, we have created a list of some of the most famous Merry Christmas quotes of all time to help you wish Joyeux Noël and Happy New Year and fill your heart with joy.

Feast your eyes on these beautiful quotes in the compiled list which spans a range of moods from funny to inspirational lines, from joyous to cute words by writers, comedians, presenters and other celebrities. Use any of them to make this Yuletide season a more exciting experience for yourself, your loved ones, family and friends alike. You can also use these quotes in your own Christmas cards hoping this holiday season brings peace and joy to all.

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64 Famous Christmas Quotes

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Franklin
• And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Jesus Christ
• As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving. Gordon B. Hinckley

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. Queen Elizabeth II
• Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies. Blake Lively
• Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. Winston Churchill

• Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. B. C. Forbes
• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz
• Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. Pope Francis
• Christmas is my favorite holiday because you spend time with family. I love the decorations, the music, and buying gifts for people. Everything about Christmas is the best. Jessica Sanchez

• Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Alexander Smith
• Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. Joel Osteen
• Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Thomas S. Monson
• Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling. Edna Ferber

• Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around. Bryan White
• Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. Stephen Fry
• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
• Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. Dale Evans

• For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi
• For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. Queen Elizabeth II
• God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. Pope Francis God
• He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
• I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe. Joel Osteen

• I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. Bill Gates
• I love the atmosphere at the mall – everything about Christmas. I don’t think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves. Drake Bell
• I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. Henny Youngman
• 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
• I think ‘Scrooge’ is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it’s about one man’s transformation. It’s saying that it’s never too late to change, and that’s a good feeling to have at Christmas. Leslie Bricusse
• I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. Billy Graham
• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens

• If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. Bob Hope
• I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. John Waters
• Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip. Gary Allan
• No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is. Rush Limbaugh
• No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! Dolly Parton
• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Andy Rooney
• Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas. Stephen Graham Jones
• That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. Jerry Seinfeld
• The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays. Blake Lively
• The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things. Thomas S. Monson

• The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school. Alice Cooper
• There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.  Pope Benedict XVI
• There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter. Gordon B. Hinckley
• There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck
• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving

• We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan
• What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. Thomas S. Monson
• 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 Coolidge
• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Gilbert K. Chesterton
• When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled. Joel Osteen

• There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves. Thomas S. Monson

• If my Valentine you won’t be,
  I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
  Ernest Hemingway
• 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 Coolidge
• What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for? Salman Rushdie
• Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree. Charlotte Carpenter

• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’. Bing Crosby
• Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. Charles Dickens
• It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself. Nick Hornby
• Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world. Winston Churchill
• The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.  Samuel Johnson

• Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope John XXIII

• Good news from heaven the angels bring,
  Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
  To us this day a child is given,
  To crown us with the joy of heaven.
  Martin Luther
• Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. W.J. Cameron
• Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

Funny Christmas Quotes

• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin
• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.Jay Leno
• Money’s scarce
  Times are hard
  Here’s your f****ng
  Xmas card
  Phyllis Diller

• Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. Craig Ferguson
• At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. Robert Godden
• The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious. Craig Ferguson
• There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries. W. J. Cameron

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Joyous Christmas Quotes

• It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
  Soon the bells will start,
  And the thing that will make them ring
  Is the carol that you sing
  Right within your heart.
  Meredith Willson

• Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold
• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. Peg Bracken
• It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.  W.T. Ellis
• Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere

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Inspirational Christmas Quotes

• How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! Benjamin Franklin
• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens
• Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. Steve Maraboli
• My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope

• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
• Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thougts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open? Are you willing to do these things for a day? Then you are ready to keep Christmas!  Henry Van Dyke

• I heard the bells on Christmas Day
  Their old, familiar carols play,
  And wild and sweet
  The words repeat
  Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie
• The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. Richard Paul Evans
• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Andy Rooney
• I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. Norman Vincent Peale

• Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. Robert Lynd
• Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. Thomas Merton
• To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can’t save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I’ve stumbled upon the very freedom I’ve longed for in the very place I’d least expected it. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Cute Christmas Quotes

• Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. Helen Steiner Rice
• To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world. Calvin Coolidge
• Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. Larry Wilde
• One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child. Hark Herald Sarmiento
• Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together. Rosie Thomas
• I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. Harlan Miller
• A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. Eva K. Logue

• Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. Joan Mills
• The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! Charles N. Barnard
• During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth. Debasish Mridha
• To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence. Lailah Gifty Akita
• Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.  Francis C. Farley
• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby
• Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home. Carol Nelson
• My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.  Bob Hope
• He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
• There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck

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