For some of us, Christmas is the perfect time to put on fuzzy socks, make tea and cosy up with a book in front of the fire place. In this spirit, we have compiled some of our favourite literary Christmas quotes.

“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow." - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose/ Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows." - William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!" - Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." - Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play / And wild and sweet / The words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow