If you’re like us, at this time of the year, you love nothing better than curling up with a good book next to the twinkling lights of a Christmas tree. To share the love, this Advent we’ve curated a collection of Christmassy quotations and paired them with lights and decorations from the top London stores. Just one question: have we included your favourite Christmas quotation?

Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo; lying on the rug.

Louisa M Alcott

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Meredith Willson

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

Dr Seuss

“This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas everybody invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.”

— Jane Austen

In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that unmistakable light coming up from earth and shining between her curtains.

Stell Gibbons

This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas everybody invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter.

Jane Austen

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

Markus Zusak

“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

— Markus Zusak

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Maya Angelou

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

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

Chris Van Allsburg

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas; star and angels gave the sign.

Christina Rossetti

“Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas; star and angels gave the sign.”

— Christina Rossetti

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

Tove Jansson

“Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.”

— Tove Jansson

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 colour with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot