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Quotes About Welsh

You even quite often hear people speaking Welsh, whereas in Scotland the number of people who seriously speak Gaelic would barely fill a shower stall.
~ Bill Bryson
Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say 'die' and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.
~ Stephen Richards
An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.
~ Olaf Tyaransen
I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.
~ Katherine Jenkins
Socialism" became an English word in 1827, when Cooperative Magazine described Welsh reformer Robert Owen (1771–1858) as a socialist—an advocate of the view that industrial wealth should be owned in common, on a cooperative basis. Owen was the first Briton to grasp the meaning of the Industrial Revolution.
~ Gary J. Dorrien
Some who were not yet ready to venture into the chapel on Sundays might well put in their first appearance on a Saturday night to see what Y dyn bach ('the little man') had got to say. (The Welsh term has an element of affection in it not obvious in the English)
~ Iain H. Murray
When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.
~ Irvine Welsh
But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.
~ Irvine Welsh
On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.
~ Irvine Welsh
Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
~ Irvine Welsh
I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?
~ Irvine Welsh
Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.
~ Irvine Welsh
Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.
~ Irvine Welsh
This cunt's allergic tae water, especially if ye mix it wi fucking soap.
~ Irvine Welsh
perhaps unrealistic expectations were being invested
~ Irvine Welsh
Mel hilariously tries tae look a bit demure, but ah clock her shootin Bobby the glance a closing-time drunk gies a fish supper.
~ Irvine Welsh
Even for Terminator 2, perennially in my DVD player, which is the finest film ever fucking made, and one of the best feminist movies of all time.
~ Irvine Welsh
There's a set of VPLs (visible panty lines) on the chicky in front ay us, and all my concentration is required to ensure a thorough examination can be undertaken.
~ Irvine Welsh
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
~ Irvine Welsh
If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.
~ Robbie Savage
Also known as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,' or in the original Welsh, 'Cwm Rhondda,'" added Sonar Taxlaw.
~ Neal Stephenson
Rescued me from the darkest heart of the forest, fought off brigands, pygmies, and a brace of tigers to bring me here. But don't let him talk his Welsh at you, one tiger was vanquished in a sluice of phlegm and mortally beaten with consonants.
~ Christopher Moore
I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.
~ John Osborne