Celts Quotes

• All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

  Julius Caesar

  Three, Language, Thirds

  Julius Caesar (2014). “The Gallic Wars”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

  Julius Caesar

  Warrior, Fearless, Soul

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• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Leaving

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• The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Song, War, Men

  Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35

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• My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

  Sean Connery

  Cheer, Attitude, Views

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• All Gaul is divided into three parts.

  Julius Caesar

  Latin, Rome, Three

  De Bello Gallico bk. 1, sec. 1

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• Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

  Jock Stein

  First Love, Lasts, Firsts

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• It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.

  John Ralston Saul

  Illustration, People, Insulting

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

  Alan Rickman

  Tongue

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• Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Criminals, Barbarians

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I’m not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus) Whoa, hang on a second. Let’s save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Boys, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.448, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn’t appeal to him in the least.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Light, Sight, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

  Ogden Nash

  Writing, Race, Greek

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• Let go of me, Celt, or I’ll rip your arm off. And you know what? I don’t care if I lose both of mine in the process. That’s the difference between us. Pain is my friend and ally. You fear it. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.546, Macmillan

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• The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.

  Laurie Lee

  Wine, Dark, Islands

  Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• Shut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.’ Love you too, Celt. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Fetch, Shut Up

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• Sunshine, it’s the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven’t eaten you or anything. (Vane)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Littles, Reassurance

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.775, Macmillan

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Blood, Space

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• Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Kids, People, Pandas

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