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Thank You Quotes for
Gifts, Presents, Treats & Keepsakes

"If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
like jewels, small islands."
Gina Gershon (b. 1962), American actress
Everyone loves to receive gifts and presents, but sometimes it can be hard to find the right words to fully express our gratitude without sounding trite or – worse – insincere.
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Here are some wonderful thank you quotes and sayings to help and inspire you in the task of writing thank you notes for gifts, presents, treats & keepsakes of all kinds.

From birthday presents on your special day, to Christmas gifts, friendship gifts, Bar & Bat Mitzvah gifts, graduation gifts, house warming gifts and more... we all receive gifts throughout the year and throughout our lives. Sending thank you notes and cards makes sure that the giver knows how much you appreciate them!

For more great quotes about showing gratitude for gifts and presents, see:



Thank You Quotes for Gifts


How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
George Elliston (1883-1946), American journalist


The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German priest & religious reformer


Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach (b. 1936), American writer


A hug is the perfect gift – one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.
Attributed to Ivern Ball


Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A.A. Milne (1882-1956), English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books


It isn't the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it.
Eileen Elias Freeman, American author of Touched by Angels


Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American teacher, writer, philosopher & reformer


A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor (b. 1942), American author, humorist & radio broadcaster


Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), American Supreme Court Justice


More Gift Thank You Quotes


I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks...
William Shakespeare (~1564-1616), English playwright & poet. From: Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 3


Some persons give with such beauty that you remember it as long as you live.
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Catholic monk & writer


The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), American author & journalist


Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.
Pindar (~522-443 BC), Greek poet


A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Catholic monk & writer


Thank you quotes for gifts: Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach


When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), writer & churchman


I never cast a flower away,
A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower – a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), English novelist & poet


It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides (~480-406 BC), Greek playwright


They gave it me, – for an un-birthday present.
Lewis Caroll, English author (1832-1898). From: Alice Through the Looking Glass


I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister & novelist