Welcome to a collection of meaningful and memorable quotes from the beloved holiday classic, A Christmas Story. This compilation of A Christmas Story Movie Quotes captures the humor, nostalgia, and heartwarming moments that have made this film a perennial favorite.
Funny Movie Quotes
Ahhh, “fra-gee-lei.” It must be Italian.
I think that says “fragile,” honey.
Oh. Oh, yeah.
You’ll shoot your eye out.
My mother was about to make another stance in the legendary battle of the lamp. The epic struggle that followed lives in the folklore of Cleveland Street to this very day.
Don’t want to waste electricity.
(Mockingly) Don’t want to waste electricity.
Well, you just… put it in the corner!
Darn thing looks like it was made out of… green pipe cleaners!
Quotes about Christmas and Childhood
Christmas was on its way; lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, around which the entire kid year revolved.
Higbee’s corner window was traditionally a high-water mark of the pre-Christmas season.
Ah-ha, there it is, the holy grail of Christmas gifts! The Red Ryder 200-shot range model air rifle!
‘What I Want for Christmas.’ What I want for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.
I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They’re very good for Christmas. I don’t think a football’s a very good Christmas present.
Quotes on Family and Life
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.
Every family has a kid who won’t eat. My kid brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years.
Adults love to say things like that, but kids knew better. We knew darn well it was always better not to get caught.
In the jungles of kiddom, the mind switches gears rapidly.
Quotes on Dreams and Desire
For weeks, I had been scheming to get my mitts on one of these fearsome, blue-steeled beauties.
My fevered brain seethed with the effort of trying to come up with the infinitely subtle devices necessary to implant the Red Ryder range model air rifle indelibly into my parents’ subconscious.
Such was my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dyke.
The theme I’ve been waiting for all my life.