Christmas Quote by Jon Anderson

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

“The Society for the Implementation of Christmas Consumption has launched a campaign to push the Destructive Gift!" (...) "The important thing (...) is that…

— Italo Calvino

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

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

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

— John Waters

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

— Anonymous

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the…

— Lloyd Kaufman

“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

“It’s lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn’t apply to retail.”

— J.D. Robb

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue…

— Margaret Deland

“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

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject;…

— George Bernard Shaw