395 Quotes by Welsh authors

Welsh quotes carry the hush of rain on slate and the pulse of chapel hymn, compact, musical, and wry. They hold hiraeth, that tender ache for place and people, and a stubborn brightness born of coal dust and sea light. The bardic tradition threads myth with daily bread, humor with hard weather, blessing with bite. Aphorisms cherish community, honor craft, and keep faith with memory, language that cups warmth like a cwtch while leaving room for wild hills and wind.

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"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman"

Richard Burton, Actor

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"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth"

Wilfred Grenfell, Activist

"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"We are muddled into war"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

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"I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"Politics is a blood sport"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

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"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult"

Ken Follett, Author

"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years"

Ken Follett, Author

"Man is the creature of circumstances"

Robert Owen, Writer

"And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech"

Ron Davies, Politician

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out"

Richard Burton, Actor

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"Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know"

Richard Burton, Actor

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"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then"

Ken Follett, Author

"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary"

Ken Follett, Author

"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer"

Robert Owen, Writer

"I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise"

Ron Davies, Politician

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