Quotes by Welsh/Welsh authors (page 1)

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

"And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

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

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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

Richard Burton, Actor

"I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form"

Taliesin, Poet

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

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked"

Taliesin, Poet

"I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world"

Taliesin, Poet

"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion"

John Cale, Musician

"Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible"

Henry Morton Stanley, Explorer

"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"Love-making is an art which must be studied"

Ivor Novello, Musician

"Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping"

Owen Glendower, Royalty

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

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

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"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

"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

"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"We are muddled into war"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"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

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

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Quotes by Welsh authors