Christmas Movie Quotes from Your Favorite Holiday Films

There’s something magical about a perfect movie quote — a line that makes you laugh, brings a tear, or sparks that cozy holiday feeling. With Christmas movies beloved across generations — from timeless classics like It’s a Wonderful Life to modern favorites like Elf and Home Alone — it’s those memorable lines that stick with us.

This collection brings together funny, heartwarming, and inspirational quotes from your favorite holiday films so you can relive the magic, share the joy, and maybe even find the perfect line for a Christmas card or post.

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

• “Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.”
• “I don’t know what to say, except it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.”
• “We’re gonna have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas.”
• “I’m sorry, folks. Parks closed. Moose out front should’ve told ya.”
• “Looks great. Little full, lotta sap.”
• “This isn’t charity. It’s family.”
• “Clark, that there is an RV. Don’t you go fallin’ in love with it, ’cause we’re taking it with us when we leave here next month.”
• “If that thing had 9 lives, he just spent ’em all!”
• “You serious, Clark?”
• “Is your house on fire Clark? No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.”
• “It was an ugly tree anyway.”
• “Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.”
• “Worse? How can things get any worse? Take a look around you, Ellen. We’re at the threshold of hell!”
• “Would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?”
• “It’s not going in our yard, Russ. It’s going in our living room.”
• “You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant!”
• “Dad, you taught me everything I know about exterior illumination.”
• “I’m sorry, this is our family’s first kidnapping!”
• “If that thing had nine lives, she just spent’em all.”
• “What is it? A letter confirming your reservation at the nuthouse?”
• “Wouldn’t be the holiday season if the stores were any hooter than they …hotter than they are.”
• “Eat my road grit, liver lips!”
• “Clark, Audrey’s frozen from the waist down.”
• “And why is the carpet all wet, Todddddd?”
• “I don’t know what to say, but it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.”

Friday After Next

• “It ain’t your beauty; it’s your booty.”
• “Ya’ll tired of eatin’ that barbecue from up the street? Where they give you more sauce than they give you meat? Then bring your big a$$ down to Bros. Barbecue, 15837 South Crenshaw Boulevard, that’s right off Manchester. Bros. Barbecue, tastes so good, make you wanna slap yo’ mama! Don’t it, Willie?”
• “Let me check my palm pilot.” [Looks at the palm of his hand.]

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Elf

• “You smell like beef and cheese, you don’t smell like Santa!”
• “Buddy, I’ve been around the world many times when I was a young cumulus nimbus cloud. It’s a wonderful place, filled with wondrous creatures—except dogs. Oh, by the way, don’t eat the yellow snow.”
• “Call me an elf one more time!”
• “Treat every day like Christmas.”
• “I just like to smile; Smiling’s my favorite.”
• “Don’t be a cotton-headed-ninny-muggins!”
• “There’s room for everyone on the nice list.”
• “I’m sorry I ruined your life and shoved 11 cookies into the VCR.”
• “You have such a pretty face. You should be in a Christmas card.”
• “Son of a nutcracker!”
• “Does somebody need a hug?”
• “He’s an angry elf.”
• “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups; candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup.”
• “I’m in love, I’m in love and I don’t care who knows it.”
• “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”
• “I’m a cotton-headed ninny muggins!”
• “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.”
• “You stink. You smell like beef and cheese, you don’t smell like Santa.”
• “You have such a pretty face, you should be on a Christmas card.”
• “I planned out our whole day. First, we’ll make snow angels for two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Toll House cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.”
• “Santa! Oh my God! Santa, here? I know him!”
• “Don’t be a cotton-headed ninny muggins!”
• “I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops.”
• “Santa Claus is coming to town!”
• “There’s room for everyone on the Nice List!”
• “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: Candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup.”
• “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”
• “I am a cotton-headed ninny-muggins.”
• “Santa! Oh my God! Santa, here?! I know him! I know him!”
• “You sit on a throne of lies!”
• “I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favorite.”

Home Alone

• “Buzz, your girlfriend… woof!”
• “Keep the change, ya filthy animal!”
• “I made my family disappear.”
• “I made my family disappear!”
• “This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back?”
• “Let’s be jolly; deck the halls with boughs of holly!”
• “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!”
• “Keep the change, ya filthy animal.”
• “Guys, I’m eating junk and watching rubbish! You better come out and stop me!”
• “Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back.”
• “This is my house. I have to defend it.”

The Preacher’s Wife

• “It’s okay if I look in the window, just as long as I don’t buy.”
• “That man is so oily, you could fry chicken on his smile.”

Bad Santa

• “Why don’t you wish in one hand and sh*t in the other. See which one fills up first.”
• “You ain’t gonna s**t right for a week!”
• “I’m sorry, but this is a family-oriented establishment.”

Trading Places

• “Cause I’m a karate man, see! And a karate man bruises on the inside!”
• “When I was growing up, if we wanted a jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub.”
• “I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor.”

A Madea Christmas

• “What’s your name? Let me guess, Ho-Ho?”
• “Y’all ain’t got no Christmas spirit, just gin.”
• “Your decorations look like a hot mess.”

The Best Man Holiday

• “Look, I’m trying to f** my wife. Can you chill?”
• “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful!”
• “Game over, man!”

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)

• “What’s that stench? It’s fantastic!”
• “The nerve of those Whos.”
• “Hate, hate, hate. Double hate. Loathe entirely!”
• “Help me… I’m feeling.”
• “Welcome, Christmas, bring your cheer. Cheer to all Whos, far and near.”
• “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
• “He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.”
• “You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile.”
• “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.”
• “No one should be alone on Christmas.”

Last Holiday

• “You better not mess up this $300 wig!”
• “I only create magic in my kitchen.”
• “That’s the spirit, Georgia!”

The Santa Clause

• “It’s not my fault the reindeer beat up Comet!”
• “You’re not Santa, Dad. You just look like him.”
• “Kids these days. They don’t understand anything!”
• “We’re your worst nightmare: elves with attitude.”
• “Seeing isn’t believing; believing is seeing.”
• “We’re going to need a bigger sleigh.”
• “Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike.”
• “Down the chimney? You want me to take the toys down the chimney into a strange house, in my underwear?”
• “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! When I wake up, I’m getting a CAT scan!”

Jingle All the Way

• “Put the cookie down… NOW!”
• “This is a man’s toy war, not a kiddy game!”
• “Why don’t you just stay for Christmas dinner, Howard?”
• “If you don’t try, you can’t fail.”
• “I thought you said you were a Christmas tree!”
• “There’s always room for family.”
• “Christmas is a race to see who gets to the gift wrap first.”
• “Put that cookie down!”
• “I’m not a pervert! I just was looking for Turbo Man!”
• “It’s Turbo time!”

A Christmas Story

• “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
• “Fragile… must be Italian!”
• “I triple dog dare you!”
• “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
• “Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas.”
• “I’d like to sing Christmas carols!”

The Night Before (2014)

• “Are we even celebrating Christmas, or just getting lit?”
• “Santa’s gonna be late for his flight!”
• “That’s not a sleigh bell—it’s my pager.”

Scrooged

• “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
• “Not everyone who says ‘Merry Christmas’ means it.”
• “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.”
• “I’m the Ghost of Christmas Present!”
• “Go ahead—sneeze and blow that little secret all over town.”

Office Christmas Party

• “You’re like a pimp that doesn’t understand that he’s a pimp.”
• “There’s cocaine in the snow machine!”

Four Christmases

• “You can’t spell families without lies!”
• “You made me spend my childhood learning YOGA.”
• “This holiday season, let’s cherish what we have.”

Christmas with the Kranks

• “Free Frosty! Free Frosty!”
• “You skipped Christmas?! Who does that?!”
• “It’s not about the gifts you get, it’s about the love you share.”

The Night Before (2015)

• “You look like if The Grinch got Botox.”
• “We’re in church, and I’m about to throw up on Jesus.”

It’s a Wonderful Life:

• “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”
• “Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”
• “Look, Mommy. The reindeer are here.”
• “Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York:

• “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.”
• “Keep the change, ya filthy animal!”
• “This is Christmas. The season of perpetual hope.”
• “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!”

The Polar Express:

• “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.”
• “Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”
• “Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
• “The first gift of Christmas!”
• “All aboard the Polar Express!”
• “This bell is a wonderful symbol of the spirit of Christmas – as am I. Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”

A Christmas Carol:

• “God bless us, everyone!”
• “Bah! Humbug!”
• “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
• “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”

Love Actually:

• “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.”
• “All I want for Christmas is you.”
• “Feliz Navidad!”
• “To me, you are perfect.”
• “I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love.”
• “At Christmas, you tell the truth.”
• “To me, you are perfect.”

Miracle on 34th Street:

• “Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
• “Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
• “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a state of mind.”
• “Christmas isn’t just a season. It’s a feeling.”
• “Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
• “I believe, I believe. It’s silly, but I believe.”
• “I believe, I believe, it’s silly, but I believe.”
• “Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
• “Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.”

A Charlie Brown Christmas:

• “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?”
• “I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
• “It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it.”
• “Rats. Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season.”
• “Let’s make this Christmas mean something this year!”
• “Have you ever tried to catch a snowflake on your tongue? It’s fun!”
• “Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize giving? Can’t we be more giving all year long?”

The Holiday:

• “It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.”
• “Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home.”
• “Christmas is more than presents, it’s love and laughter.”

The Night Before Christmas:

• “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
• “When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.”

The Grinch:

• “Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away.”
• “The magic of Christmas never ends and its greatest of gifts are family and friends.”
• “It’s not the getting, it’s the giving.”

White Christmas:

• “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”
• “The best things happen while you’re dancing.”
• “Let’s be merry and bright!”
• “I’ll never forget the way you look tonight.”
• “If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep.”

Die Hard:

• “Welcome to the party, pal!”
• Frosty the Snowman:
• “I’ll be back again someday.”
• “Happy Birthday!”

Holiday Inn:

• “Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays.”
• “It’s that time of year when the world falls in love.”

Scrooge (1970):

• “Humbug, I tell you! Humbug!”
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:
• “Bumbles bounce!”