Are you looking for Christmas greetings to wish your best wishes to yours? This selection of famous phrases about Christmas with images are inspiring and they are ideal to share with loved ones. Merry Christmas 2025!
Christmas greetings: the origin
In recent years, the rising trend is to wish happy holidays by sending Christmas greetings for Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook… However, the tradition of sending letters congratulating Christmas is very old (the first recorded one dates back to 1534). Furthermore, in the 19th century the tradition of sending Christmas cards with images and phrases of good wishes for Christmas.
Specifically, it is believed that The first Christmas cards were sent in 1843 from London. Apparently, the idea came from an employee of the London Public Records Office, Henry Cole, who did not have time to write to his loved ones and, in order not to leave his relatives without Christmas greetings, It occurred to him to commission an artist –John Calcott Horsley– to design a Christmas image so that he could print the postcards and send them directly to his relatives. In this first Christmas card the written message was quite sober: «Merry Christmas and a happy new year.»
Henry Cole’s idea was successful and, over time, the custom of sending much more witty and original Christmas greeting cards spread, which were always finished with handwritten phrases to wish a Merry christmas to loved ones.
Merry Christmas: famous phrases to wish the best in 2025
Nowadays, to congratulate Christmas, we prefer to send images through social networks. A good option is to choose images with famous inspiring phrases spoken by figures from history, culture and science. We have selected for you the best phrases to congratulate this Christmas 2025. They are very beautiful and inspiring phrases to wish the best wishes.
13. «As we struggle with lists and invitations, with the cold December weather against us, it is good to remember that there are people in our lives for whom the effort is worth it, and people for whom the feeling is reciprocal.» Donald E. Westlake
Sometimes we complain about everything that Christmas entails, the effort to look for that thing that others will like, that food that will surprise others the most… and we forget the meaning of all that.
14. «When I look at the stable in Bethlehem, I think that despite the humility, the lack of resources…a star shone in the Manger.» Marian Rojas Estapé
The psychiatrist of the Rojas clan reminds us that each of us carries a star inside, which can shine when circumstances are adverse to us.
15. «My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is that it means something very simple: loving others. And I say: why wait for Christmas to do that?» Bob Hope
A famous quote from the famous American comedian about the paradox of these days when we show our best feelings. Why not do it the rest of the year? he asks us.
16. «Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…maybe…means a little more than that.» Dr. Seuss
In this phrase from the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which inspired the famous film, Dr. Seuss gives us a reminder, in the form of an insinuation, that it is a mistake to focus Christmas on material things.
17. «Christmas means doing a little extra for someone.» Carles M. Schulz
Christmas, the creator of the comic character Charlie Brown tells us, is about getting out of yourself to think about others.
18. «When we look back and remember Christmases from other years, it is usually the simplest things, and not the big celebrations, that bring us the greatest happiness.» Bob Hope
The importance of small details, those that touch the heart, is once again the protagonist in this famous phrase by the American comedian Bob Hope.
19. «One very nice thing about Christmas is that you can’t escape it, like a thunderstorm, and we all have to go through it together.» Garrison Keillor
Whether you like it or not, enjoy it or fear it, Christmas is there, and you are not alone, the American comedian tells us.
20. «Merry, Merry Christmas, the one that makes us remember the illusions of our childhood, reminds grandfather of the joys of his youth, and transports the traveler to his fireplace and his sweet home!» Charles Dickens
We can focus on what makes us sad about Christmas, or on what unites us and reminds us of happy moments. That is the Christmas that Charles Dickens wanted for everyone as he wrote in The Posthumous Pickwick Papers.
21. «Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day in the year to remind us that we are here for more than just ourselves.» Arnold Eric Sevareid.
Once again the desire that the values of Christmas be extrapolated to the rest of the year is sensed in this reflection by the American journalist.
22. «Never worry about the height of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of a child they are always 900 meters tall.» Larry Wilde
The important thing is to be there, not the money you invest.