Quotes by Welsh Authors

it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.
Ned Thomas
Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
George Herbert
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.
Welsh proverb
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves kick it if it doesn't move kick it until it does.
Phil Woosnam
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
George Herbert
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
John Owen
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.
Welch Proverb
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Dylan Thomas
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
Welsh proverb
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
Hands have not tears to flow.
Dylan Thomas
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
John Owen
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.
Welch Proverb
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Dylan Thomas
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
Welsh proverb
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
Hands have not tears to flow.
Dylan Thomas
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
George Herbert
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas
Little pitchers have wide ears.
George Herbert
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
Gwyn Thomas
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh proverb
One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.
George Herbert
Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
Grace Williams
When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.
Richard Watkyns
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
Elaine Morgan
That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
George Herbert
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English....Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.
Christmas Evans
The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name?In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings.To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.
RJ Arkhipov
Penny for your thoughts,' asked Gwen.'Cheapskate,' said Ianto. 'Never heard of inflation? Thoughts are a bit pricier than that these days.''OK,' said Gwen. 'A pint down the local tomorrow for your thoughts.'Ianto smiled. 'That's more like it.
David Llewellyn
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.
Dylan Thomas
We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a big black velvet rump. A summer night to make anybody with standard glands feel that tidy homes, spring mattresses, four guaranteed meals per day, and legalised religion were all criminal to human development.
Ron Berry
Passion is a rare flower that grows on the precipice of death. A few snatch it, and the rest are like an ox chewing its cud in a field.
Saunders Lewis