On the whole,
I prefer Christmas as an adult
than I did as a child.
Nigella Lucy Lawson
television personality, gourmand, and food writer)
The best Christmas present
I got from my husband
was a week
to do whatever I wanted.
Olivia Haigh Williams
In my experience,
those who make the biggest fuss
about not spending much at Christmas
are generally the ones
who buy what they want
and eat where they want
12 months a year.
Julian Baggini
Christmas is a rare occasion
when we are reminded
that we have obligations to people
we did not choose
to be related to,
and that love
is not just a spontaneous feeling
but something we sometimes
really have to work at,
with people we may not
even much like.
Julian Baggini
We no longer sing and dance.
We don’t know how to.
Instead, we watch other people
sing and dance on the television screen.
Christmas, which was once
a festival of active enjoyment,
has turned into a binge
of purely passive pleasures.
Tom Hodgkinson
Tax cuts should be for life,
not just for Christmas.
George Gideon Oliver Osborne
