Twelve Literary Christmas Quotes to Use In Your Christmas Cards This Year

Add some class to your cards

Paul Combs
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
4 min readNov 28, 2021

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It seems strange to be writing about Christmas while it’s still November, but Thanksgiving came late this year, Black Friday is over, and we are now less than a month away from December 25th. With the new, slower, U.S. Postal Service, it is definitely not too soon to be getting those Christmas cards out the door, and I have some famous literary quotes about the season to help you spice those up a bit.

A quick word about Christmas cards before we proceed. If you are sending your Christmas “cards” by email, you are simply wrong. If you are sending “Christmas greetings texts,” Santa will bypass you altogether. And if all you send is a photo of your family with the dog taking the prominent place, seek help immediately. These are not Christmas cards; they exhibit either a lack of effort or a severe case of narcissism, neither of which are appropriate to the season.

With that out of the way, let’s move on to real Christmas cards. There are a plethora to choose from (religious, traditional, humorous, Star Wars-themed, etc.), but most have one thing in common. While the image on the front may be beautiful, the message inside always reads like it was written by someone who gets paid to write as many so-called heartwarming…

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Paul Combs
Writers’ Blokke

Writer, bookseller, would-be roadie for the E Street Band. My ultimate goal is to make books as popular in Texas as high school football...it may take a while.