Wales Quotes

• Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
  All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Air, Water, Lovely

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Giving, Soul

  A Man for All Seasons act 2 (1960). Ellipsis in original text. See Bible 278

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• Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Heaven, England, Poor

  Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “Here Be Dragons”, p.135, Macmillan

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• The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.

  Jimmy Wales

  Queens, Thinking, Community

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• Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

  Dougie Poynter

  Men, Sheep, Scared

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• On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

  Lillie Langtry

  Princess, Night, London

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• We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

  Evelyn Waugh

  English History, England, Influence

  'Decline and Fall' (1928) pt. 1, ch. 8

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• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Drink, Quails

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

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• To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

  R. S. Thomas

  Blood, Sky, Conscious

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Lost, Felt

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• I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

  Piper Perabo

  Rain, Sunshine, Confusing

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• In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

  Rhys Ifans

  Party, Skills, Singing

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• I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

  Tom Jones

  Moving, House, One Day

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• Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

  Dylan Thomas

  Time, Artist, Talking

  Quite Early One Morning (1954) pt. 2 "Wales and the Artist"

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• The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

  David Hasselhoff

  Writing, Land, House

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• I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

  Stephen Leacock

  Laughing, Way, Economy

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• In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

  Piper Perabo

  Eight, Weather, Different

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• Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Senior, Commonwealth Games, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Selfish, Believe, Mean

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• I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Thinking, Two

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.446, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Courtesy, Prince Hal

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2. Henry V".

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• 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.

  Gerald of Wales

  Thinking, Judging, Answers

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• I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

  John Prescott

  Mother, Country, School

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• There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Rhys

  Unique, Missing, Los Angeles

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