Welsh Quotes - page 2

Most English-speaking people ... will admit that cellar door is "beautiful," especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful...Well then, in Welsh, for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. View quote
Maureen Johnson
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks. View quote
Ian Rankin
BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me? View quote
Thomas Dekker
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. View quote
Ann Romney
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. View quote
Arthur Smith
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. View quote
Bryn Terfel
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be. View quote
Gary Speed
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' View quote
Hari Kondabolu
It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby. View quote
Jonah Lomu
I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant! (Katherine Jenkins)
As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair. View quote
Matthew Rhys
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh. View quote
Matthew Rhys
At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English. View quote
Matthew Rhys
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red. View quote
Matthew Rhys
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be. View quote
Rhys Ifans
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection. View quote
Ian Rush
If we win the Welsh Heartland, then we win Wales; if we lose the Welsh Heartland, it is not Wales that we win. View quote
Owain Owain
He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
We was as 'appy as could be that day Down at the Welsh 'Arp, which is 'Endon way. View quote
Albert Chevalier
The Welsh boy has it by his bed, (He's lame - one leg blown away - He'll lie propped up with pillows there, And wind the handle half the day. His neighbour, with the shattered arm, Picks out the records he must play. (Eva Dobell)
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson. View quote
Mark Twain
Even God had a Welsh name: He spoke to him in the old language. View quote
R. S. Thomas
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? View quote
R. S. Thomas
Even God had a Welsh name: He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book. View quote
R. S. Thomas