Welsh Quotes

Welsh Quote of the day

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

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

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

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

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

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

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

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

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.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

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

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

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.

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

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

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

An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

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

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 me quite a blank canvas.

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

The young players in the Welsh squad aren't young any more

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 punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

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

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 union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.