The holiday season is a time for coziness, joy, and a sprinkle of magic that fills the air with warmth and cheer. Whether you’re decorating, writing holiday cards, or crafting the perfect Instagram caption, finding just the right words can help capture the essence of Christmas.
This list of 150 short, aesthetic Christmas quotes and sayings brings together a delightful mix of heartfelt, whimsical, and festive lines that evoke all the best parts of the season.
From cozy moments by the fire to snow-covered landscapes, these quotes are perfect for adding a touch of holiday charm to any celebration. So grab a cup of hot cocoa, get inspired, and spread some holiday spirit with these beautifully crafted words.
Short Christmas Quotes & Sayings
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hillis
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones
“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
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“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” — Peg Bracken
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” — Dr. Seuss
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Charles Dickens
“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.” — Helen Steiner Rice
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” — Dale Evans
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.” — Andy Rooney
“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas
“What is Christmas? It is the tenderness of the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.” — Agnes M. Pahro
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.” — Mo Rocca
“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” — Valentine Davies
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things—not the great occasions—give off the greatest glow of happiness.” — Bob Hope
“Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” — David Cameron
“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.” — Carrie Fisher
“Let us have music for Christmas… Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth; let each of us try, with a song in our hearts, to bring peace to men on earth.” — Mildred L. Jarrell
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” — Winston Churchill
“Christmas is a time when you get homesick—even when you’re home.” — Carol Nelson
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.” — Thomas S. Monson
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” — Janice Maeditere
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.” — Gladys Taber
“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it is given with affection.” — Pindar
“Christmas is a together-y sort of holiday.” — Winnie the Pooh
“Christmas isn’t a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.” — Donna VanLiere
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it—you feel it. You know it. You believe it.” — Kevin Alan Milne
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” — Augusta E. Randel
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
“I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.” — Hillary Scott
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” — Unknown
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.” — Charlotte Carpenter
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
“Christmas is a time to cherish peace and goodwill.” — Calvin Coolidge
“Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” — Pope John XXIII
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” — Mother Teresa
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” — Thomas Tusser
“For it is in giving that we receive.” — Francis of Assisi
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” — Garrison Keillor
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day.” — Norman Wesley Brooks
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.” — Bing Crosby
“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” — Ruth Carter Stapleton
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” — Booth Tarkington
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Will Ferrell as Buddy in Elf
“Christmas isn’t a season, it’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” — Harlan Miller
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” — Margaret Thatcher
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” — Joan Mills
“This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.” — Taylor Caldwell
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.” — Charles Dudley Warner
“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” — Pope Francis
“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness ahead of our own.” — Toni Sorenson
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
“Christmas to me is as many people as possible happy.” — Tupac Shakur
“Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing.” — Martin Luther
“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder.” — Ralph Sockman
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” — Dale Evans
“Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” — David Cameron
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.” — Gisele Bundchen
“For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.” — Mo Rocca
“The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness.” — Thomas S. Monson
“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.” — Fred Rogers
“At Christmas, we feast not only on the gifts that come but on the memories.” — Fred Bauer
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day.” — Andy Rooney
“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.” — Pope Francis
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” — Unknown
“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
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” — Augusta E. Randel
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.” — John Roy
“It’s Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” — W.T. Ellis
“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” — The Polar Express
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Charles Dickens
“Christmas now surrounds us, happiness is everywhere.” — Shirley Sallay
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.” — Andy Rooney
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” — Unknown
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” — Joan Mills
“Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” — Augusta E. Randel
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones
“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” — Margaret Thatcher
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Will Ferrell as Buddy in Elf
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” — Booth Tarkington
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” — Peg Bracken
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.” — Norman Wesley Brooks
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber
“For it is in giving that we receive.” — Francis of Assisi
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” — Janice Maeditere
“Christmas is a time for warmth and good cheer.” — Unknown
“It’s not what’s under the tree that matters most, it’s who’s around it.” — Charlie Brown
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” — Unknown
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” — Ann Garnett Schultz
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” — Washington Irving
“Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” — Freya Stark
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” — Edna Ferber
“Christmas is a time for family, friends, and love.” — Unknown
“Christmas day is the children’s, but the holidays are youth’s dancing-time.” — Booth Tarkington
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — Will Ferrell as Buddy in Elf
“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
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” — Ann Garnett Schultz
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” — Peg Bracken
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” — W.C. Jones
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.” — Calvin Coolidge
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.” — Mo Rocca
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” — Richard Paul Evans
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” — Agnes M. Pahro
“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” — Janice Maeditere
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” — Thomas Tusser