Wales quotes

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

- Matthew Arnold
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world† But for Wales!

- Robert Oxton Bolt
  Thomas More.  A Man for All Seasons.

Mon Mam Cymbry. That is, Anglesea is the Mother of Wales.

-Thomas Fuller
  History of the Worthies of England,'Anglesea'. The saying is an old one, meaning that  Anglesey's corn is enough to sustain all Wales. English physician and writer.

   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  A Child's Christmas inWales.

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 Marlais Thomas
  Quite Early One Morning,'Wales and theArtist'.

'I often think,' he continued,'that we can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales!'

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.8.