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

  Hombres, Dar, Alma

  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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• Cuanto más tiempo pasaba en el sitio, más pensaba que Gales era una especie de hormiga reina que dejaba trabajar a la inmensa colonia, en el centro de un sistema en el que el conocimiento de la comunidad es infinitamente mayor que la suma de la experiencia de todos sus individuos.

  Jimmy Wales

  Queens, Pensamiento, Comunidad

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

  Dougie Poynter

  Men, Sheep, Scared

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• Una noche de mi debut vinieron a verme el Prince de Gales, la Princesa y la duquesa de Londres. Me querían por lo que era y por lo que les daba.

  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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• Un higo para perdices y codornices, no sé nada de vosotros; Pero en el monte más alto de Gales elegiría en paz beber mi café.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Drink, Quails

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). "Las obras de 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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• Vivir en Gales es ser consciente, al anochecer, de la sangre derramada para crear el cielo salvaje...

  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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• Soy nieta de un minero del carbón galés que estaba empeñado en que sus hijos salieran de las minas. Mi padre consiguió su primer trabajo a los seis años, en un pueblecito de Gales llamado Nantyffyllon, limpiando botellas en el Colliers Arms.

  Ann Romney

  Trabajo, Papá, Niños

  Discurso de Ann Romney en la Convención Nacional Republicana en Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. 28 de agosto de 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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• En Gales, hay ocho climas diferentes en un día.

  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

  Fuente: 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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• Soy el Prince de Gales; y no pienses, Percy, en compartir conmigo la gloria nunca más: Dos estrellas no mantienen su movimiento en una esfera.

  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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• Ni creo que ninguna otra nación que la de Gales, ni ningún otro idioma, pase lo que pase en el futuro, responda por este rincón de la tierra en el día del severo examen ante el Juez Supremo.

  Gerald de Gales

  Pensar, juzgar, respuestas

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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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