It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
“Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is ‘mitchio yn y dre’.” — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. — Ian Rush Copy Share Image
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh. — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very… — Richard Brake Copy Share Image
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations'… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Being Welsh means you sometimes get exposed to international football earlier. Again, that helps player development, speeds up their thought process in… — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
It's funny because when you're a Welshman living in England, you always get the mickey taken out of you for being Welsh,… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard… — Raymond Postgate Copy Share Image
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what… — Anne Stevens Copy Share Image
I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms.… — David Jason Copy Share Image
Welsh voices and Welsh communities were heard in 2016 in their tens of thousands, in their droves. They voted to leave the… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to still live in Wales. We have the beaches, the mountains, the food, the people of course. We have a… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and… — Brendan Copy Share Image
I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I… — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
I see myself as a different sort of Welsh. Because we are from Cardiff, we see Wales as Cardiff. This is Wales;… — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
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