35 Best Grinch Quotes From “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”

Sharing 35 of the best Grinch quotes from “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” including original Grinch quotes from Dr. Suess.

Despite trying to steal Christmas, the Grinch has some of the funniest quotes across all Christmas movies in my opinion. If you’re ready to get in the spirit, here are 35 Grinch quotes to get you laughing…and feeling something…this holiday.

35 Best Grinch Quotes From “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”

“Help me… I’m feeling.”

“4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me — I can’t cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing… I’m booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness.”

“Am I just eating because I’m bored?”

“I specifically bought enough food to last me until January. How much emotional eating have I been doing?”

“Hate, hate, hate. Double hate. Loathe entirely.”

“I tell you Max, I don’t know why I ever leave this place. I’ve got all the company I need right here.”

“Stupid. Ugly. Out of date. This is ridiculous. If I can’t find something nice to wear I’m not going.” 

“And they’ll feast, feast, feast, feast. They’ll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But that’s something I just cannot stand in the least. Oh, no. I’m speaking in rhyme!”

“Kids today. So desensitized by movies and television.”

“I’m all toasty inside.”

“All right, you’re a reindeer. Here’s your motivation: Your name is Rudolph, you’re a freak with a red nose, and no one likes you. Then, one day, Santa picks you and you save Christmas.”

 “Look at those greedy little gift monsters.”

“This is the loudest snow I’ve ever heard in my life!”

“Nice kid. Bad judge of character.” 

“Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn’t allow it.”

“I guess I could use a little social interaction.”

“To kindness and love, the things we need most!”

“Be it ever so heinous, there’s no place like home.”

“Well done, Max! Serves them right, those yuletide-loving…sickly-sweet, nog-sucking cheer mongers! I really don’t like ’em. Mm-mm. No, I don’t.” 

“Today was great! We did mean things, and we did them in style.”

“Oh. Bleeding hearts of the world UNITE.”

Grinch Quotes About Christmas

“It was me. I stole your Christmas. I stole it because I thought it would fix something from the past. But it didn’t.” 

“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”

“It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.”

“Blast this Christmas music. It’s joyful and triumphant.”

“Christmas Day will always be just as long as we have we.” 

“Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces on Christmas.”

“That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? That’s what it’s always been about. Gifts, gifts… gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts! You wanna know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me. In your garbage. You see what I’m saying? In your garbage. I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump. And the avarice. The avarice never ends! ‘I want golf clubs. I want diamonds. I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored and sell it to make glue.’ Look, I don’t wanna make waves, but this whole Christmas season is stupid, stupid, stupid!”

“Cheer up, dude. It’s Christmas.”

“What’s Santa have that I don’t?”

Original Grinch Quotes From Dr. Suess

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. 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.”

“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say, that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.”

“Every Who Down in Whoville Liked Christmas a lot…But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, Did NOT!”

“Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve, happened a story you must see to believe.”

“What a great Grinchy trick! With this coat and this hat, I look just like Saint Nick!”

Wanting more Grinch fun? Here are a few Grinch trivia questions to enjoy!

What is the Grinch’s most famous line? Hate, hate, hate. Hate, hate, hate. Double hate. LOATHE ENTIRELY!

What is the quote about the Grinch’s heart growing? “And what happened, then? Well, in Whoville they say – that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day. And then – the true meaning of Christmas came through, and the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches, plus two!” 

Why is the Grinch mean? The Grinch had a painful childhood – one he associates with shame and suffering – and it made him reclusive and distrustful of his peers.

What does the Grinch say to Max (his dog) when he sneezes? Gesundheit.

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