Quotes About Welsh

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

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

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

This [Welsh] language seems to be more particularly adapted for poetry; which, however extraordinary it may seem to some, on account of the multiplicity of gutturals and consonants with which it abounds, has the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek.

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

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

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

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

I still like to think of Richey as being holed up in a Welsh valley somewhere, with a pile of books and a dog.

Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

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

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 fathers were a bit ready with their hands and quick in the legs the English must blame themselves. Perhaps most of them never heard of the laws they made against us. You cannot blame ignorant men.

Cwn Annwn," I said. "I think I'm finally pronouncing that right. Welsh. So many letters. So few vowels.

He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right?

Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel.

hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means nostalgia and yearning and grief for lost places.

He taught her one of her favorite words: hiraeth, a Welsh word that means a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that maybe never was; it means nostalgia and yearning and grief for lost places.

The saint is a good Welshwoman, and knows her countrymen. We are not quick in respect to rank or riches, we do not doff and bow and scrape when any man flaunts himself before us. We are blunt and familiar even in praise. What we value we value in the heart, and

You have not lived here among us. She did. You are English, she was Welsh, she knew us, and was never so moved against us that she withdrew or complained. We know she is there, no need to exclaim or make any great outcry. If we have needs, she knows it, and never asks that we should come with prayers and tears, knocking our knees on the ground before her. If she grudged a few brambles and weeds, she would have found a means to tell us. Us, not some distant Benedictine house in England!

And it should be remembered that before the coming of the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth and seventh centuries, dialects of Old Welsh were spoken the length of Celtic Britain.

Caladfwlch is 'hard lightning' in Welsh. The silly French dubbed the blade Excalibur.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

My initial impression of the Welsh was that they were grumpier than I was!