Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and g

Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Christmas
category

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. – April Winchell

Category:
Christmas

Im well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So Ill get in now while its cheap as chips. – Melanie Brown

Category:
Christmas

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. – Dennis Miller

Category:
Christmas

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge, 1927

Category:
Christmas

Random Quotes

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britains place is in Europe. – Peter Mandelson

Category:
Attitude

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. – Charles Lamb

Category:
best

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business – men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know its going to cost us and cost us a lot. – Rick Perry

Category:
Business

You cant make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. – Colin Quinn

Category:
funny