Winter Holiday Quotes:

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.

- Edith Sitwell

source: Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

topic: Home, Winter, Fire, Solstice, Cold Weather

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Christmas, Blessed, World, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

- Oren Arnold

topic: Tolerance, Enemy, Opponents, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

- Oliver Herford

topic: Sweet, Spring, Dark, Winter Holiday

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

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

topic: Christmas, Real, Mind, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Humour And Laughter, Inspirational Laughter

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Strong, Holiday, Winter, Winter Holiday, Winter Season

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Love, Positive, Christmas, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Christmas, Time And Love, Ingredients, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

- Phillip Adams

topic: Travel, Holiday, Discovery, Inspirational Holiday, Reassurance

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Christmas, Heart, Men, Christmas Time, Carols

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Christmas, Spiritual, Morning, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Eve

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Heart, Holiday, Silence, Inspirational Holiday, Winter Holiday

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

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

topic: Christmas, Sweet, Men, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Atheist, Holiday, Atheism, Merry Christmas Wishes, Winter Holiday

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

- Lenora Mattingly Weber

topic: Christmas, Children, Heart, Family Holiday, Inspirational Holiday

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

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Love, Funny, Christmas, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

- Charles Dickens

topic: Funny, Christmas, Home, Inspirational Holiday, Christmas Eve

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Funny, Christmas, Tears, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Inspirational

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

- Thomas Tusser

source: Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Inspirational Holiday

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Christmas, Funny Christmas, Littles, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

- Ray Stannard Baker

source: Ray Stannard Baker (1910). “Adventures in Friendship”

topic: Healing, Thinking, Years, Christmas Time, Inspirational Holiday

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Funny, Christmas, Money, Humorous Christmas, Merry Christmas Cards

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

- Matsuo Basho

topic: Holiday, Winter, Years, Winter Holiday

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

- Christina Rossetti

source: 'Mid-Winter'

topic: Travel, Nature, Winter, Bleak, Snow Falling

I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

- Holly Black

source: Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girlfriend, Holiday, Winter, Moodiness, Audrey

My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

- Alan Titchmarsh

source: "Alan Titchmarsh: 'I went white-water rafting in Costa Rica... I'm just thankful I stayed afloat'". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 10, 2016.

topic: Holiday, Sleep, Winter, Winter Holiday

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

- Jami Attenberg

topic: Children, Believe, Holiday, Winter Holiday, Believe In Santa