Merry Christmas 2023: Beautiful quotes that eco the spirit of the holiday season

• “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”- Charles Dickens
• “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”- Norman Vincent Peale
• “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”- Charles M. Schulz
• “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
• “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”-Roy L. Smith
• “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”- Hamilton Wright Mabie
• “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
• “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 Severeid
• “Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”- Bess Streeter Aldrich
• “At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.“- Jane Austen
• “I’ve 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.”- Maya Angelou
• “It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.”-Nick Hornby
• “Where art thou, Mother Christmas? I only wish I knew, Why Father should get all the praise, And no-one mentions you”- Roald Dahl
• “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”- Stella Gibbons
• ”I ask you to answer me fairly: is not additional eating an ordinary Englishman’s ordinary idea of Christmas day?”- Anthony Trollope
• “Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”- Jeanette Winterson
• “It being Christmas eve, there was, as I had forseen, a great deal of revelry and what not.”- PG Wodehouse
• “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
• “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”- JRR Tolkien
• “Fine 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.”- George Eliot

• “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.“- Charles Dickens
• "The 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."- Louisa May Alcott
• "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."-Bess Streeter Aldrich
• “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 Ingllas Wilde

• "Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever."-Richelle E. Goodrich
• "Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."-Washington Irving
• "Fine 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."- George Elliot

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• "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!"-Hamilton Wright Mabie