46 Welsh Quotes for You to Enjoy

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! Katherine Jenkins

Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English. Linda Colley

Home Rule Instance Simply Also Welsh Edwardian Ireland Irish Wanted Victorian Separate English Who Many Activists Round

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

Happy Mother Girl Nice Think Would Would-Be Welsh Very Found

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red. Matthew Rhys

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English. Matthew Rhys

Home Word Long Become Lazy Welsh Replace Just Really English

I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then, having left school shortly after my GCSEs, I auditioned for the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as well as the Welsh National Youth Opera. I ended up getting into all three. Morfydd Clark

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I always speak Welsh to my family. Richard Burton

Family Speak Always Welsh

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

Happiness Better Half Welsh

Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American. Romesh Ranganathan

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One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K. Rory Bremner

Will Resources Bitter Division Prospective Greatest Welsh Irish Debts Northern Against English Union Whole Set

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman

Women First Research Elsewhere Status Laws More Greater Welsh Years Years Ago Discovery Began Wales Than Moved Europe Fascinated Twenty Enjoyed Here Medieval Dragons

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it? Simon Fowler

Family Town Roberts Welsh Quite Grandfather Mum Slate

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. Susanna Clarke

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. Tracey Ullman

It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust. W. H. Davies

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English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding. Karren Brady

Fans Action Benefit Laws Football Welsh Irish Scottish Northern Being Gains Clubs Much English Europe European Funding

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are. Ioan Gruffudd

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