Welsh Quotes · Page 2

An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

— Olaf Tyaransen

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

— Peter Greenaway

I just go broad Welsh when I'm nervous.

— Ruth Jones

Welsh is maybe one of the most difficult accents to learn.

— Myha'la

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

— Christian Bale

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

— Matthew Rhys

What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.

— Gary Speed

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

— Jonah Lomu

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very…

— Ioan Gruffudd

Bowen is a Welsh name and the family background is more rugby than football, but we're English through and through.

— Jarrod Bowen

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

— John Osborne

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

— Anthony Hopkins

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to…

— Gary Speed

All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play.

— Brendan Rodgers

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

— Rhys Ifans

My initial impression of the Welsh was that they were grumpier than I was!

— Sean Lock

What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light…

— Cassandra Clare

I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton…

— Joanna Page

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on…

— Lembit Opik

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that…

— Ioan Gruffudd

Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care…

— R. S. Thomas

In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Before I played Stacey, no one even knew I was Welsh because I had previously always acted with an English voice, so…

— Joanna Page

There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best…

— Tom Jones

Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are…

— Obafemi Awolowo

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.…

— Tracey Ullman

Because Oswestry is very much an Anglo-Welsh mix it can lead you to feeling a bit bipolar sometimes. I mean, you're in…

— Jesse Armstrong

“We asked our Welsh teacher, Mr Llewellyn – who is young, to tell us the Welsh sex words. The Welsh word for…

— Joe Dunthorne

We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…

— Robert Graves

Some accents people - internationally - can't understand, also they come with baggage. London means a certain thing, Liverpool means a certain…

— Steven Knight

We're both Welshmen and growing up, when Howard Marks was finally caught, it was all over the news. He did an interview…

— Rhys Ifans

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

— Taron Egerton

“Sorry, no. I'm Magog, and I'm a raven. Not a selkie." she said, in a singsong accent I recognized as Welsh from…

— Nicole Peeler

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

— Mark Twain

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

— Anonymous

I love it that the Welsh moment was with 'Gavin & Stacey!' Now when I go up for jobs, they want me…

— Joanna Page

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

— William Shakespeare

“Caladfwlch is ‘hard lightning’ in Welsh. The silly French dubbed the blade Excalibur.”

— Derek Hart

I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare.

— Joanna Page