Our Favorite Christmas Quotes That Capture the Joy of the Season (2025)

To some, the best part of the holiday season is the big Christmas Eve dinner the night before Santa arrives. For others, it's all about cookie baking and decorating the house with the kids. While everyone's Christmas celebration might look a little different, the true spirit of the holiday is universally felt — and what better way to get into the festive season than reading through these short, inspirational and funny Christmas quotes.

Some of the fun sayings and heartfelt messages about Christmas derive from your favorite holiday movies like Home Alone, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, while another handful of the wintery phrases on this list can be traced back to famous poets, comedians, actors and artists.

You can share these with your family when you see them next or pick one as a Christmas Instagram caption to accompany your favorite holiday snaps. These joyful tidings also make for great messages in the Christmas cards you're sending out to your friends and relatives. All we know is that these warm seasonal greetings deserve to be shared far and wide for all to enjoy. Time to spread that Christmas cheer!

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

Let us keep Christmas beautiful, without a thought of greed, that it might live forevermore, to fill our every need.

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 Christmastime.

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.

Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back?

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!

You say you hate Washington's birthday or Thanksgiving, and nobody cares, but you say you hate Christmas, and people treat you like a leper.

Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.

I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel.

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year.

Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it.

It's not how much you give but how much love we put into giving.

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

It's Christmas Eve! It's ... it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we ... we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.