Welsh Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Welsh

Welsh Quotes & Sayings

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Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. — Irvine Welsh

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. — 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

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. — Rhys Ifans

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

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. — Irvine Welsh

Thir must be less tae life than this. — Irvine Welsh

At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it. — Stephen Richards

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh. — Iwan Rheon

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English. — Christian Bale

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

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

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

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know... — Irvine Welsh

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

Square go then smart cunt! — Irvine Welsh

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on. — Irvine Welsh

Living like this is a full-time business. — 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

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

Some people say you should watch a man's feet to see if he's ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes! — Stephen Richards

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

No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies.
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.) — Irvine Welsh

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. — Irvine Welsh

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

Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides. — Irvine Welsh

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales. — John Rhys-Davies

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

I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer. — Irvine Welsh

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! — William Shakespeare

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever. — Evelyn Waugh

adjourn for another beer. We — Irvine Welsh

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

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

Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien. — 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

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

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

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

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

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

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. — Irvine Welsh

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

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae. — Irvine Welsh

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. — Maureen Johnson

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything. — 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

Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another — Irvine Welsh

Are you asking me or telling me? — Irvine Welsh

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

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights. — John McWhorter

'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

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

She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world — Irvine Welsh

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, — Mikey Welsh

It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy. — Irvine Welsh

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

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. — Irvine Welsh

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

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him. — Robbie Savage

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

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

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out. — Irvine Welsh

We all see what we want to see. — Irvine Welsh

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

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

Remember how it felt yesterday? What you saw me do?" I snorted and grinned. "Man, do I ever. I remembered twice last night and again this morning. — Missy Welsh

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby. — Jonah Lomu

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

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

Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well. — Irvine Welsh

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything. — Stephen Richards

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

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit. — Irvine Welsh

When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again. — Irvine Welsh

It's crazy what you can talk yourself out of when you're scared and into when you're not. — Missy Welsh

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