I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Caladfwlch is ‘hard lightning’ in Welsh. The silly French dubbed the blade Excalibur.” — Derek Hart Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?” — Angela Quarles Copy Share Image
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a… — Evangeline Walton 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“We asked our Welsh teacher, Mr Llewellyn – who is young, to tell us the Welsh sex words. The Welsh word for… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?” He got to his feet, unfolding with… — Angela Quarles Copy Share Image
“Old people only say that life happens quickly to make themselves feel better. The truth is that it all happens in tiny… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“Some other facts I picked up: Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbours Angela and Gaenor spoke it.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a time when Jupiter was the king… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“She led them to their pallets, again encircled by other pallets. She sat down, sighing at her aching muscles, and caught his… — Angela Quarles Copy Share Image
![“Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/dwight-yoakam-9632_christianity_those-songs-from-church-i-think-shaped-t_613462.jpg)
