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The best literary quotes about Christmas

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Cosy up to the most wonderful time of the year with these festive quotes from classic literature.

Christmas is a time of goodwill and good cheer, with a little sprinkling of magic. It comes but once a year and yet it is a season of endless inspiration for writers, new and old. 

And so, we've rounded up some of our favourite quotes that sum up what makes the festive period so merry and bright. 

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I ask you to answer me fairly: is not additional eating an ordinary Englishman’s ordinary idea of Christmas day?”

– Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm

“The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.”

– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that unmistakeable light, coming up from the earth and shining between her curtains.”

– Stella Gibbons, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

“The week before Christmas, when snow seemed to lie thickest, was the moment for carol-singing; and when I think back to those nights it is to the crunch of snow and to the lights of the lanterns on it”

– Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Charles Dickens

Orley Farm (BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial)

Anthony Trollope

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Cider With Rosie

Laurie Lee

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”

– Maya Angelou

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

– Charles M. Schulz

“Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”

– Washington Irving

“Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”

– George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories

P.G. Wodehouse

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

Jane Austen

“It being Christmas eve, there was, as I had forseen, a great deal of revelry and what not.”

– P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit

“Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance.”

– Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

“This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.”

– Jane Austen, Emma

“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.”

– Laura Ingalls Wilder, Prairie Wisdom

“Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.”

– William Makepeace Thackeray, The Kickleburrys on the Rhine

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The 62 Best New Year’s Eve Quotes to Celebrate 2022

Your Thanksgiving leftovers are finished, you’ve done all your Christmas gift shopping, and you opened all your presents. So, now all that’s left of the holiday season is celebrating your way into 2022. But as you welcome the new year, you may be left wondering how exactly you should celebrate. Maybe you’ll come up with a New Year’s resolution you can actually keep, or perhaps you’ll finally throw that New Year’s Eve party you had to cancel last year.

However you choose to celebrate the beginning of the new year, make it a memorable one with these funny, inspiring, and pop culture-inspired quotes to keep in the back of your mind or caption your Instagram posts with for the happiest, healthiest year yet.

Funny New Year’s Eve Quotes

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” —Bill Vaughan

This year better be amazing. After last year and...well...the year before that one. It has to be amazing.

Less bitter, more glitter.

New year, same me.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.

My New Year’s resolution is to remember to write 2022 instead of 2021.

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022!

Here’s to 2022 actually being a new year and not just 2020 part three.

Merry fitmas and a happy new rear.

Let’s try this again…

Before I agree to 2022 I need to watch the trailer first.

Another year bites the dust.

8 p.m. is the new midnight.

Cheers to the people who love us, the losers who lost us, and the lucky ones who still get to meet us.

But first, champagne.

New year. Who dis?

Pop, clink, fizz! (That’s Alka Seltzer, not champagne.)

Inspiring New Year’s Eve Quotes

“Celebrate endings–for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Huie

To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.” —Ben Johnson

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” —Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan

This is your year to sparkle.

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” —Charles Kettering

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” —T.S. Eliot

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” —Beyonce

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”—Plato

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New Year’s Eve Quotes Inspired by Movies

“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” —Charlie Brown

“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —The Incredibles

“When that ball drops at midnight—and it will drop—let's remember to be nice to each other, kind to each other. And not just tonight but all year long.” —New Year's Eve

“You don't roll the dice on New Year's.”—A Lot Like Love

“And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —When Harry Met Sally

“Yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it—you can either run from it or learn from it.” —The Lion King

“Jonah, wake up. The ball's dropping.” —Sleepless in Seattle

“Only creeps and crazy people go out on New Year's Eve.” —Radio Days

“This is going to be just like senior year, only funner!” —Legally Blonde

“I thought one of the perks of having a family was that you didn't have to spend New Year's Eve alone with Chinese food.” —Sex and the City

“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.” —Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

“525,600 minutes. How do you measure a year in your life?” —Rent

“If you focus on what you’ve left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.” —Ratatouille



New Year’s Eve Quotes Inspired by Songs

“Happy new year. May we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend.” —ABBA

“So listen, dear, won't you meet me here, while I'm bringin' in a brand new year?” —B.B. King

“I got to perk up a little funky new year.” —The Eagles

“Let's watch the old year die with a fond goodbye.” —Bing Crosby

“I want your midnights, but I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year’s Day.” —Taylor Swift

“It’s the final countdown.” —Europe

“A long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.” —Counting Crows

“Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” —Natasha Bedingfield.

“A little party never killed nobody, so we gon’ dance until we drop.” —Fergie

“Thank you, next!” —Ariana Grande

“Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight when it's exactly twelve o'clock that night.” —Ella Fitzgerald

“Or maybe baby, I’ll see you on New Year’s Day.” —Sugarland

“Here comes the jackpot question in advance. What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?” —Kacey Musgraves

“The best is yet to come.” —Frank Sinatra

“Kiss me at midnight. Dance into the morning light. Party into the new year.”—NSYNC

“Let’s toast to new beginnings, raise our glass and say, for all of our tomorrows and what was yesterday.” —Jon Bon Jovi

“Raise your glass and we'll have a cheer, My dear acquaintance, a happy new year, happy new year.” —Regina Spektor

Arielle Weg Arielle Weg is the associate editor at Prevention and loves to share her favorite wellness and nutrition obsessions.

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