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75 Christmas Quotes to Spark Joy This Holiday Season

Updated on: January 11, 2022 by Louise Myers Leave a Comment

Christmas quotes text on purple ornaments.

Craving Christmas quotes to add some joy to the world?

Perfect! Even though the holidays are happy for most, just about everyone could use a little extra peace, love, and merriment.

Share these quotes as Facebook and Instagram captions, or use them to make picture quotes.

Text to friends, or add to Christmas cards.

We’ll start with funny Christmas quotes to get you in a jolly mood.

And include quotes about family, love, and much more!

Let’s jump into the joy…

holiday cheer christmas quote with santa sack.

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Funny Christmas quotes

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
~George Carlin

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
~Phyllis Diller

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~Garrison Keillor

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
~Clarence Clemons

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
~Johnny Carson

quote graphic says Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
~Alice Cooper

There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
~Johnny Carson

Christmas is a time when everybody wants their past forgotten and their present remembered.
~Phyllis Diller

Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.
~Andy Borowitz

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, goodwill to men, and batteries not included.
~Unknown

You’ll also enjoy the funny quotes on this page of winter quotes!

picture quote says not getting what you asked can be the best gift.

I played Santa Claus many times, and if you don’t believe it, check out the divorce settlements awarded my wives.
~Groucho Marx

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
~Unknown

Roses are reddish, Violets are bluish. If it weren’t for Christmas, We’d all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill

What happens under the mistletoe stays under the mistletoe.
~Randall Paskemin

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people only once a year.
~Victor Borge

picture quote says At Christmas, all roads lead home.

Christmas quotes for family

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.
~Andy Rooney

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
~Larry Wilde

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
~Erma Bombeck

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.
~Carol Nelson

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~Burton Hillis

picture quote says most wonderful time of year.

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~Taylor Caldwell

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Washington Irving

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
~Jesse Jackson

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~Marjorie Holmes

picture quote of Christmas village says conspiracy of love.

Christmas quotes on love

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~Charles Dickens

Christmas, my child, is love in action.
~Dale Evans Rogers

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~Roy L. Smith

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.
~Bob Hope

picture quote says grownup christmas list.

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
~Paul M. Ell

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

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
~Author unknown

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
~Janice Maeditere

picture quote shows holiday gift ideas on presents.

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
~Author Unknown

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
~Eric Sevareid

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.
~Norman Wesley Brooks

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
~Dale Evans

Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.
~Freya Stark

picture quote says Love the giver more than the gift.

Religious Christmas quotes

Some of these quotes are spiritual in a more secular sense than “religious” per se.

Be sure to check out our Christmas Bible verses for genuine quotes from the Bible.

Love the giver more than the gift.
~Brigham Young

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
~Benjamin Franklin

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries.
~W.J. Cameron

picture quote says do everything in love.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

May peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
~Unknown

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
~Loring A. Schuler

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

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
~Author Unknown

The beauty of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence.
~Unknown

picture quote says glory to the newborn king.

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

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

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.
~Bing Crosby

picture quote says dreaming of white christmas.

Christmas quotes for cards

You’ll find many more Christmas card verses on my Christmas slogans page!

Too many adults believe in Santa Claus, and too many children don’t.
~Lee Lauer

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale

The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
~J. C. Penney

picture quote says holiday magic on christmas card.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
~Alexander Smith

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
~Thomas Tusser

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~Calvin Coolidge

And so this is Christmas…what have you done?
~John Lennon

Cute Christmas quotes

If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas?
~Don Meredith

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~Harlan Miller

Christmas 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.
~Tove Jansson

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
~Mo Rocca

picture quote says believe in magic.

There’s nothing cozier than a Christmas tree all lit up.
~Jenny Han

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
~John J. Geddes

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

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
~Rosie Thomas

Check out this page of snow quotes!

polar express picture quote says most real things can't be seen.

Christmas quotes: The Grinch

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
~Dr. Seuss

Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces on Christmas.
~The Grinch

You can’t hurt Christmas, Mr. Mayor because it isn’t about the gifts or the contests or the fancy lights.
~Lou Lou Who

Tomorrow is Christmas. It’s practically here!
~The Grinch

No matter how different a Who may appear, he will always be welcomed with holiday cheer.
~Cindy Lou Who

picture quote says We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.

Christmas quotes: Elf

Remember, Talk Like Buddy the Elf Day is December 18! Check out more social media holidays here.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~Buddy the Elf

Son of a nutcracker!
~Buddy the Elf

I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands.
~Buddy the Elf

Santa, here?! I know him! I know him!
~Buddy the Elf

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.
~Buddy the Elf

picture quote says live simply be grateful.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed my Christmas quotes collection!

Save one to Pinterest so you can visit again later.

Be sure to check out more Christmas marketing ideas.

And if you love quotes, be sure to visit my page on the best quote sites so you’ll always have plenty to enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

picture quote says you don't have to be merry all the time.

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