“If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Christmas Quotes
Of all the old festivals… that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with out conviviality and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.
Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, […]
Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Then Dickens spoke, and, lo! the vast Unpeopled void stirred into life; The dead world quickened, the mad blast Hushed for an hour its idiot strife… And from the gloom… Old friends and dear came trooping in, And light and laughter filled the room… Voices and faces, shapes beloved, Babbling lips and kindly eyes, Not […]
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes – Some have got broken – and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be traken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to […]
Midnight and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves’ birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it “Christmas” and went to church; the Jews called it “Hanukkah” and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say “Merry Christmas!” or “Happy Hanukkah!” or (to the atheists) “Look […]
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they had opened their Samsonite travelling bags, they presented unto him gifts; Obsession for Men, and Lady Speed Stick, and a genuine 10 carat gold filled necklace from the Home […]
