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With the gift of faith, we move on. — Irvine Welsh

Also known as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,' or in the original Welsh, 'Cwm Rhondda,'" added Sonar Taxlaw. — Neal Stephenson

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. — Anthony Hopkins

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count. — Irvine Welsh

So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land — Richard Llewellyn

-The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled. — Irvine Welsh

We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet. — Irvine Welsh

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan. — Irvine Welsh

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s. — Kate Williams

How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors? — Phil Rickman

But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up. — Irvine Welsh

The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated. — Irvine Welsh

It's always struck me as funny that guys with scars get a reputation for being hard. It's the ones that cut them you should be looking out for, right? — Louise Welsh

Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan. — Irvine Welsh

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - as long as I keep my senses, at least. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. — Irvine Welsh

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

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie. — Bob Norster

Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace — Irvine Welsh

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment. — Irvine Welsh

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same. — Gwyn Alfred Williams

If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world. — Irvine Welsh

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. — Irvine Welsh

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit. — Ian Rush

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred. — Stephen Richards

-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick. — Irvine Welsh

The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him — Irvine Welsh

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. — Irvine Welsh

At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football. — John Grisham

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life. — Irvine Welsh

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. — Bonnie Tyler

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland. — Guy Mowbray

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. — Irvine Welsh

I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.' — Jane Welsh Carlyle

What worries me is the professionalism of everything. — Irvine Welsh

The young players in the Welsh squad aren't young any more — Ian Rush

The Welsh ... I mean, what are they for? — Anne Robinson

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading — Irvine Welsh

I am Welsh and the rest is propaganda. — Alun Richards

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same — Irvine Welsh

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman. — Steve Fowler

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. — Evangeline Walton

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs. — Irvine Welsh

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have. — Irvine Welsh

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. — Irvine Welsh

I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you! — Stephen Richards

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other. — Louise Welsh

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. — Richard Burton

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses. — Irvine Welsh

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right? — Ken Follett

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

Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all! — Irvine Welsh

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. — Mark Twain

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no! — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind. — Irvine Welsh

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
~Welsh Proverb~ — Elise McCune

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. — Anonymous

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be. — Gary Speed

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation. — Irvine Welsh

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh. — John Osborne

[Arthur to Merlin]
I'm the Prince of Wales, and you're Welsh. I can do whatever I bloody well like to you. — FayJay

The first job of a writer is to be honest. — Irvine Welsh

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae? — Irvine Welsh

Use the noble gifts which God has given you! — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? — Irvine Welsh

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance. — Irvine Welsh

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. — Ian Rush

There are cries in the dark at night
As owls answer the moon — R.S. Thomas

Everything in the street today seems soft focus. — Irvine Welsh

Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh. — Irvine Welsh

Creu Gwir fel gwydr o ffwrnais awen Creating truth like glass from the furnace of inspiration — Gwyneth Lewis

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character. — Irvine Welsh

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ... — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked. — Irvine Welsh

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl. — Bonnie Tyler

[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us? — Irvine Welsh

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair. — Matthew Rhys

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror. — Irvine Welsh

Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'. — Joe Dunthorne

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh

It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs. — Irvine Welsh

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be. — Rhys Ifans

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The only kicks and highs people got then were the ones dished out in nightclub fights. — Stephen Richards

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh. — Matthew Rhys

On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form. — Irvine Welsh