Christmas December Quotes
These Christmas December quotes are for the cozy, busy, twinkly month that ends the year. Use them in Christmas cards, advent calendars, letter board signs or captions for your tree photos.
Each quote shows who said it, popular sayings are marked, and our own sayings are labeled. For a little Who-ville fun, try our printable Grinch quotes too.
Quick Picks: Christmas December Quotes
The five we would write in every Christmas card.
- “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” (Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street)
- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” (W. T. Ellis)
- “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” (attributed to Rosie Thomas)
- “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” (Richard Paul Evans)
- “December: twinkle lights, warm hearts.”
The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
Cozy December Quotes
For frosty mornings, wood smoke and the first snow.
December in a sentence
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
Lisa Kleypas, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
- “December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” (Vivian Swift)
- “In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.” (Alexander Pope)
- “Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.” (attributed to Charles Dickens)
- “Hot cocoa in hand, December at heart.”
The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
Christmas Spirit Quotes for December
For the moment you want to pull out every box of decorations at once.
- “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” (Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street)
- “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” (W. T. Ellis)
- “Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it; you feel it, you know it, you believe it.” (Kevin Alan Milne, The Paper Bag Christmas)
- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” (Hamilton Wright Mabie)
Family Christmas Quotes
For the people around the tree, and the mess they leave behind.
- “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” (Andy Rooney)
- “That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their Blackberry, they just happen.” (attributed to Kelly Finch)
- “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” (Deborah Whipp)
Keep this one
“Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.”
Attributed to Rosie Thomas
Our own saying
“Same pajamas, same chaos, same favorite people.”
3BoysAndADog original
December Quotes About Giving
Reminders that the best gifts are not always wrapped.
- “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” (Ruth Carter Stapleton)
- “Love the giver more than the gift.” (Brigham Young)
- “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” (Washington Irving, Old Christmas)
- “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’” (Bing Crosby)
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Funny and Thoughtful December Quotes
A laugh for the tree farm, and a pause before the year ends.
- “There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.” (Dan Florence)
- “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” (attributed to Winston Churchill)
- “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.” (Richard Paul Evans)
- “Ho, ho, hold on, it is only December 1.”
The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
Ways to Use Christmas December Quotes
A few easy ideas for the month.
- Christmas cards: Write one inside each card, or try our easy DIY Christmas cards.
- Advent calendar: Tuck one quote into each day of the countdown.
- Letter board or chalkboard: Change the quote every Sunday in December.
- Dinner table: Read one out loud and ask everyone what it means to them.
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about December and Christmas quotes.
