Christmas Quote by Italo Calvino

“In the same way, we read a great deal about the Spirit of Christmas in modern journalism or commercialism; but it is really a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on pointless items…

— Helen Fielding

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel…

— Craig Ferguson

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

— Jon Anderson

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel…

— George Bernard Shaw

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know…

— Fanny Kemble

“It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against…

— Helen Fielding

“Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a…

— John Piper

We're so used to Christmas being absconded by commercial endeavors and consumerism and all of those aspects of the holiday that have culturally overshadowed…

— Jonathan Roumie

Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed, that it might live forevermore to fill our every need, that it shall not…

— Ann Schultz