30 Santa Quotes to Celebrate the Magic of Christmas
“It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.”
Santa Claus is coming to town! What better way to prepare for the right jolly old elf (besides putting out milk and cookies, of course, and maybe some reindeer food too) than by reading some short, funny, and nostalgic Santa quotes to get you in the holiday spirit.
Selected from famous essays, poems, Christmas books, and celebrity quotes, this collection is sure to earn the approval of St. Nick himself. Peruse through them as December 25 approaches and perhaps save one you especially like for Instagram captions for your kids' Santa photos this year. And even if you're a grown-up, don't forget Santa also comes to visit in the form of playing secret Santa.
Looking for more inspiration for the season? Find it in these famous Christmas quotes or in a set of Christmas Bible verses or religious Christmas quotes. Or for a good laugh, channel all the Christmas Vacation quotes plus some Christmas puns, reindeer jokes, and Santa jokes.
Now for those Santa quotes, which are sure to remind you of magical childhood memories from your past, especially those Christmas Eve nights when you used to stay up listening for the sounds of reindeer on the rooftop.
Francis P. Church
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.”
Clement Clarke Moore
“His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!”
Chris, "The Polar Express"
“On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets. I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound I was afraid I’d never hear. The ringing bells of Santa’s sleigh.”
Francis P. Church
"Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!”
Shirley Temple Black
“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.”
Robert Paul
“You know you're getting old when Santa starts looking younger.”
Charmaine J. Forde
"An ounce of goodness everyday,
Can soothe the heart in many ways,
An ounce of goodness 'just because'
Don't wait until Christmas to be Santa Claus."
Jon Bon Jovi
“Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Claus. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?”
Lemony Snicket
“The real Santa Claus is at the mall.”
Anonymous
“Dear Santa, Before I explain, how much do you know already?”
Truman Capote
“Of course there is a Santa Claus. It’s just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That’s why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.”
Jack Handy
"If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus."
James Gould
"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about 10 that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."
Tom Armstrong
"Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income, and flies to cities all over the world under the cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?"
Victor Borge
"Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once a year."
Dick Gregory
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
Herbert Hoover
"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
Francis P. Church
"Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no Santa Claus! There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."
Edwin Osgood Grover
"Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows."
Paul M. Ell
"They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
Maribeth B Jones is the Design Director of Country Living where she creates seasonal content full of warmth and playfulness. When she’s not wrangling chickens for a cover shoot you can find her collecting vintage oil portraits or flipping pancakes in her sunny, yellow kitchen with her two chatty daughters.
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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