Welsh Quotes - Page 4

• Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

  Iwan Rheon

  Real, Drama, Home

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Should Have, Style, Saws

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Names, Peculiar, Chance

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

  Maureen Johnson

  Doors, Wizards, Next

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.44, Penguin

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Curves, Lines, Facts

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

  Avram Davidson

  Two, Three, Dylan

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• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Sparks, Ruth

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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

  Matthew Rhys

  Girl, Mother, Nice

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

  Robbie Savage

  Good Luck, Thinking, Talent

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• 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.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Sound, Mouths

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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

  Timothy Dalton

  Hero, Thinking, And Off

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• Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .

  R. S. Thomas

  Wall, Book, Names

  R. S. Thomas, “A Welsh Testament”

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• End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

  Anne Stevens

  Echoes, Sound, Pounds

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

  Peter Greenaway

  Birth

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• Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.

  Linda Colley

  Fashion, Mind, Hegemony

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

  Ian Rush

  Player, Squad, Young

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• We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Believe, Names

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• I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton of Holby Blue fame and pick up my dog and cuddle him, that's all that matters. I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.

  Joanna Page

  Dog, Husband, Home

  "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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

  John Osborne

  Bisexual, Men, World

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• 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.

  Keira Knightley

  Book, Kids, Wizards

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Auberon Waugh

  Spring, Peaceful, Mind

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• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Icons, Saws, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Integrity, Son

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

  Ronnie Barker

  Joy, Singing, Males

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• I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!

  Petula Clark

  Song, Congratulations, Hard Work

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