120 Short Christmas Quotes For a Happy Holiday

Christmas is the time when the world slows down a bit, hopefully giving us some time to reflect and rest before the next year.

It’s a time to reconnect with the people and things that mean the most to us.

To gather inside our warm homes filled with lights of all kinds, sharing meals, stories and good times – and laughs – while the darkness and cold of winter is forgotten for a while.

And to help you to make this a joyful, fun and recharging holiday I’d like to share 120 short Christmas quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to inspire you and that you can share with family and friends on Christmas cards, in a funny text or on your Instagram to bring a little bit of Christmas magic to them too.

Short Christmas Quotes and Sayings

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Christmas works like glue; it keeps us all sticking together.”
– Rosie Thomas

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
– Kevin Alan Milne

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
– Alexander Smith

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
– Marjorie Holmes

“Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
– Freya Stark

“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

“Christmas is a tonic for our souls.”
– B.C. Forbes

“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

“Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.”
– Deborah Whipp

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“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 isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
– Valentine Davies

“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

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
– Pope Francis

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
– Norman Wesley Brooks

“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.”
– W.J. Cameron

“Christmas is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

Short Christmas Day Quotes for Family

“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family.”
– Roberta Flack

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
– Burton Hills

“You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
– Robert Paul

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”
– Gladys Taber

“At Christmas, families come together like branches on a tree.”
– Karen Kostyla

“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.”
– Agnes M. Pahro

“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers

“Christmas is a time when families unite, love multiplies, and magic fills the air.”
– Caroline Kennedy

“The best Christmas gift is to realize how much you already have.”
– Marie Kondo

“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”
– Wanda Hope Carter

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.”
– Carol Nelson

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
– W.C. Jones

“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox: that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.”
– Phyllis Diller

“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
– Charlie Brown (from A Charlie Brown Christmas)

“Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking.”
– Patricia Clafford

Short Christmas Quotes for Friends, Instagram and Christmas Cards

“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 is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.”
– Larry Wilde

“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”
– Edna Buchanan

“The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime.”
– Zooey Deschanel

“Christmas is a bridge of hope that connects yesterday’s memories with tomorrow’s dreams.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“Christmas is a season of great joy: a time for remembering the past and hoping for the future.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Christmas is a reminder of the gift of friendship, the blessing of family, and the peace that comes from love.”
– Emily Matthews

“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.”
– Ann Garnett Schultz

“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
– Pindar

“The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
– Helen Keller

“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that.”
– Mary Fairchild

“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”
– Mo Rocca

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christmas is the happiness that lights up children’s eyes.”
– Ainsley Harriott

“May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill.”
– Martha Stewart

“Christmas is a feast of love and friendship.”
– Michael Gough

“Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer – home.”
– W. J. Tucker

“Christmas is a time for cherishing those who bring so many blessings to our lives.”
– Mary Hollingsworth

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Short Christmas Quotes for Kids

“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat.”
– Traditional English Carol

“Christmas is a time of miracles and wonder.”
– Roald Dahl

“You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.”
– John R. Rice

“Christmas is a magical time when wishes come true.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“Christmas is like a hug from someone you love.”
– Shel Silverstein

“Christmas is a key that opens hearts, just like a very special gift can do.”
– Judith Kranz

“Christmas is a time when anything is possible.”
– Rick Riordan

“Christmas is when we find the inner child in our hearts again.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Christmas is a dream come true for every child.”
– Beverly Lewis

“Christmas is a time for believing in things you cannot see.”
– Robert Fulghum

“Christmas is a starlit night of wonder.”
– Kate DiCamillo

“Christmas is when angels sing with children’s hearts.”
– Bethany Roberts

“Christmas is a time when everyone becomes a child again.”
– Lewis Carroll

“Christmas is the most wonderful, magical time of the year.”
– Jim Butcher

“Christmas is a time when dreams take flight.”
– Patricia MacLachlan

“Christmas is about spreading cheer, wherever you are.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Christmas is a special time for children to dream big dreams.”
– Katherine Paterson

“Christmas is a time to believe in the impossible.”
– Chris Van Allsburg

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’”
– Bing Crosby

Funny and Short Christmas Quotes

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.”
– Shirley Temple

“Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet.”
– Dave Barry

“Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge

“Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup: Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.”
– Wendy Cope

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
– Johnny Carson

“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”
– Andy Borowitz

“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating candy out of socks.”
– Unknown

“Christmas shopping is a lot like military service — you do things you would never ordinarily do in places you would never normally go.”
– Bill Vaughan

“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.”
– Dave Barry

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, ‘Toys not included.’”
– Bernard Manning

“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
– Kin Hubbard

“The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”
– Johnny Carson

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.”
– Henny Youngman

“Dear Santa, before I explain, how much do you know already?”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.”
– Andy Borowitz

“Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good.”
– Sally Brown (from A Charlie Brown Christmas)

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. But if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.”
– Erma Bombeck

Want more inspiration? Have a look at these 101 inspirational Christmas quotes and the uplifting November quotes in this post. You may also find these 101 positive workplace quotes helpful during the fall and winter.