30句关于圣诞节的名人语录|30 great Christmas quotes
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"Bah, humbug!'
Scrooge's catchphrase, 'Bah, humbug', is often used to express disgust with Christmas charity. Alastair Sim (above) played Scrooge in the classic 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
'Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas . . . perhaps . . .means a little bit more!'
From the 1957 children's classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel,1904-1991). Jim Carrey starred as The Grinch in the 2000 film.
'One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.'
Professor Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter book by J.K Rowling. Dumbledore was played by Michael Gambon in some of the films.
'Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.'
Victor Borge (1909-2000), who was born Borge Rosenbaum, was a Danish and American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark.
'Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen.'
Homer Simpson
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house/Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.'
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), an American professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia University, wrote yuletide poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, which later became famous as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. George W Bush, before he became President, is seen reading T'was the Night Before Christmas to pupils at Una Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1999.
'And girls in slacks remember Dad/And oafish louts remember Mum/And sleepless children’s hearts are glad/And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’
Poet Laureate John Betjeman (1906-1984), from his poem Christmas.
'The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.'
The late American comic Joan Rivers
'I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.'
Child star actress Shirley Temple
'I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.'
Bilious comedian Bernard Manning (1930-2007)
'Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.'
Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American actor and singer who had a million-selling hit with I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas.
'The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.'
George Carlin (1937-2008), American stand-up comedian
'I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.'
Sylvia Plath, poet
'The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, DC. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.'
Tonight Show host Jay Leno
'Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.'
Bart Simpson
'There ain't no Sanity Clause!'
Chico Marx's great play on words in a quickfire exchange with Groucho.
'Always winter but never Christmas.'
CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
'Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.'
Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
'Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.'
Tonight Show presenter Johnny Carson
'Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.'
Stephen Fry, presenter of QI (above)
.'And so this is Christmas . . . what have you done?'
John Lennon, singer, seen here with Yoko Ono
'Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.'
Comedian WC Fields
'My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?'
American comedian Bob Hope
'That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.'
American comedian Jerry Seinfeld
'Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.'
Washington Irving (1783-1859), author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
'It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.'
Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
'At Christmas I no more desire a rose/Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows'
William Shakespeare mentions ‘Christmas’ only three times in his work, twice in Love’s Labour’s Lost, including the reference above.
'A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.'
Author Garrison Keillor
'I was about nine and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.'
Just in case you wondered if a football manager had ever been sacked on Christmas Day - Jose Mourinho reminds us that anything is possible in football
'God bless us, every one!'
Come on everybody . . . . 'Ahhhhh'. A sentimental ending to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is provided by Tiny Tim (above in the 2009 Disney version) who offers the statement, 'God bless us, every one!' at Christmas dinner, with the nice new Scrooge in mind.