Books Quote by Ammon Shea

“For the house of Dunraven, the ravens represented a spiritual claim to the Tower for the Celtic, especially the Welsh, people. For the English,…

— Boria Sax

“For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!”

— Robert Bolt

“There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The…

— Bertrand Russell

“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting…

— Norman Davies

“The myth that the island of Britain was the God-given property of Welsh-speaking peoples stolen by the Saxons meant that the Welsh were reluctant…

— Simon Brooks

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something odd about…

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Joanna Page

“Thus did these two, the man from Wales and the man from Norfolk, enter the silent streets of the town of Glastonbury.”

— John Cowper Powys

“Welsh, they call us, from the Saxon word waelisc, meaning a foreigner. About the race-course, I cannot tell you. But if some of our…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Gray stood up and came round the desk. "Think of the words on that memorial, Wraysford. Think of those stinking towns and foul bloody…

— Sebastian Faulks

“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles…

— George Orwell