There are so many classic Christmas movies that have provided us with all those iconic lines we love to use, so we have put together a list of all the best Christmas movie quotes for your next post. We’ve also broken them down by movie to make it even easier to find that perfect quote to share.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Elf
“He must be a South Pole elf.” – Buddy
“This place reminds me of Santa’s Workshop. Except it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me.” – Buddy
“Son of a nutcracker!” – Buddy
“What about Santa’s cookies? I suppose parents eat those, too?” – Buddy
“You have such a pretty face. You should be on a Christmas card.” – Buddy
“SANTA! Oh my God! Santa, here?! I know him! I know him!” – Buddy
“I planned out our whole day. First we make snow angels for two hours, and then we’ll go ice skating, and then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie Dough as fast as we can, and then to finish, we’ll snuggle.” – Buddy
“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.” – Buddy
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Buddy
“Of course you’re not [an elf]. You’re six-foot-three and had a beard since you were 15.” – Leon the Snowman
“There’s room for everyone on the Nice List!” – Buddy
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas
“Look, I don’t wanna make waves, but this whole Christmas season is stupid, stupid, stupid!” — The Grinch
“Cheer up, dude. It’s Christmas.” — The Grinch
“Tomorrow is Christmas. It’s practically here!” — The Grinch
“Christmas Day will always be just as long as we have we.” — Narrator, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
“It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.” — The Grinch
“Well, in Whoville, they say that the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes that day.”
“I don’t need anything more for Christmas than this right here. My family.” — Lou Lou Who
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”— the Grinch
“Holiday who-be what-ee?” — The Grinch
“No one should be alone on Christmas.” — Cindy Lou Who
“You can’t hurt Christmas, Mr. Mayor because it isn’t about the gifts or the contests or the fancy lights.” — Lou Lou Who
“Blast this Christmas music. It’s joyful and triumphant.”—the Grinch
“Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces on Christmas.” — The Grinch
Home Alone
“This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back.”— Kevin McCallister
“Guys! I’m eating junk and watching rubbish. You better come out and stop me!”– Kevin McCallister
“Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!”— Kevin McCallister
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Elf Captions, Grinch Quotes, Christmas Party Captions and Christmas Lights Captions.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
“Honey, they’re family—not strangers off the street.” — Clark Griswold
“Hey kids, look! A deer!” — Clark Griswold
“And we’re going to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas.”— Clark Griswold
“I don’t know what to say, but it’s Christmas, and we’re all in misery.”— Ellen Griswold
“We’re kicking off our fun, old-fashioned family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols.” — Clark Griswold
“Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.”— Clark Griswold
“Thith tree is a thymbol of the thpirit of the Griswold family Christhmath.” — Clark Griswold
A Christmas Carol
“Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I love Christmas!”—Ebenezer Scrooge
“God bless us, everyone!”—Tiny Tim
“Bah, humbug!”—Ebenezer Scrooge
“There’s more gravy about you than grave.”—Ebenezer Scrooge
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” — Ebenezer Scrooge’s Nephew
“But sir, Christmas is a time for giving… a time to be with one’s family.”—Bob Cratchit
“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.”—Charles Dickens
“Come in, come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!” — The Ghost of Christmas Present
The Santa Clause
“Thanks, but I’m seeing someone in wrapping.”— Judy the Elf
“I believe in Santa Clause. I’m not a baby.”—Scott
“Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.”—Judy the Elf
Miracle on 34th Street
“Your Honor, every one of these letters is addressed to Santa Claus. The Post Office has delivered them. Therefore the Post Office Department, a branch of the Federal Government, recognizes this man Kris Kringle to be the one and only Santa Claus.” – Fred
“I’m not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I’m a symbol.”— Kris Kringle
“Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” —Kris Kringle
“Well, I hate to disagree with you, but not only IS there such a person, but here I am to prove it.” – Kris Kringle
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”– Fred Gailey
A Charlie Brown Christmas
“I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”—Linus Van Pelt
“I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.”—Charlie Brown
A Christmas Story
“Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap.”—Ralphie
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid!”—Ralphie
“Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.”— Ralphie
Scrooged
“That’s the one good thing about regret: it’s never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to.”— Claire Phillips
“It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more.”— Frank Cross
It’s a Wonderful Life
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”— Clarence
“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”— Zuzu Bailey
Love Actually
“There was more than one lobster at the birth of Jesus?” – Karen
“But for now, let me say. Without hope or agenda. Just because it’s Christmas. And at Christmas you tell the truth. To me, you are perfect.”— Mark
“I left Elton John’s, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, to hang out with you, at Christmas. It’s a terrible mistake, Chubs, but you turn out to be the fucking love of my life. And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life.” – Billy Mack
“Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose and you’ll always regret it if you don’t.”— Daniel
“I’ll be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.” – Mia
“I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love.”—Billy Mack
Frosty the Snowman
“I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier.”—Narrator
“I’m all livin’! I am alive! What a neat thing to happen to a nice guy like me.”—Frosty
“For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow well, something wonderful is bound to happen.”—Narrator
The Polar Express
“The thing about trains… it doesn’t matter where they’re going. What matters is deciding to get on.”— Conductor
“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.”— Conductor
“Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”—Santa
Christmas With the Kranks
“…as odd as it sounds, I didn’t think to ask the butcher where the chocolate was!”—Nora Krank
“You’re skipping Christmas! Isn’t that against the law?”—Spike Frohmeyer
Deck the Halls
“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.”— Kelly Finch
“I was 7, my dad and I moved to Alabama…and Christmas morning we ate on the floor, ate French fries and drank chocolate milk.”—Steve Finch
Jingle All the Way
“We’re not just doing this for us. We’re doing it for the kids. For every kid who ever sat on Santa’s lap.”—Mall Santa
“Who told you you could eat my cookies?”—Howard Langston
“I gotta tell you, Santa, there’s something about this place that doesn’t seem quite…Kosher.”—Howard Langston
So that is it for our list of Christmas Movie Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one!
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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