Welsh Quotes - sorted by....

Quotes about the Welsh People

"We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales"
Evelyn Waugh

"The more I know about Wales, the more I am aware that I live in a country entirely populated by perverts"
Dylan Thomas

"I wanted a play that would paint the full face of sensuality, rebellion and revivalism. In South Wales these three phenomena have played second fiddle only to Rugby Union which is a distillation of all three."
Gwyn Thomas (Jackie the Jumper)

"The Welsh", said the Doctor : "are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing" ,he said with disgust : "sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver."
Evelyn Waugh

Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world,
...but for Wales?
Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt.

Thy tongue makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned, sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, with ravishing division, to her lute...
William Shakespeare :: Why? Cos it's just really good!!! ;o)

Quotes by Welsh People

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Richard Burton

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports"
Richard Burton

"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice."
Richard Burton

"I wanted a play that would paint the full face of sensuality, rebellion and revivalism. In South Wales these three phenomena have played second fiddle only to Rugby Union which is a distillation of all three."
Gwyn Thomas (Jackie the Jumper)

"There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud"
Gwyn Thomas

"I rather like my reputation actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer: it’s rather an attractive image"
Richard Burton

Quotes from the movie Zulu

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Bromhead
Lieutenant John Chard: Chard:

Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.

Colour Sergeant Bourne: A prayer's as good as bayonet on a day like this.

Pte. Thomas Cole: Why is it us? Why us?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we're here, lad.

Reverend Otto Witt: There are 4,000 Zulus coming against you. You must abandon this mission.
Bromhead: Damn the levies man... Cowardly blacks!
Adendorff: What the hell do you mean "cowardly blacks?" They died on your side, didn't they? And who the hell do you think is coming to wipe out your little command? The Grenadier Guards?

Bromhead: Sixty! We dropped at least 60, wouldn't you say?
Adendorff: That leaves only 3,940.

Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.
Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.

Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: You know this boy?
Orderly: Name is Cole, sir. He's a paper hanger.
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: Well, he's a dead paper hanger now.

Bromhead: Fear certainly dries the throat, doesn't it? I was never so thirsty in my life!
Chard: I could have drunk a river.
Bromhead: Was it like this for you? I mean, how did you feel the first time?
Chard: How do you feel?
Bromhead: I feel afraid and there's something more. I feel ashamed. There. You asked me and I told you. How was it your first time?
Chard: Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?

Bromhead: If 1200 men couldn't hold a defensive position this morning, what chance have we with 100?

[Bourne calls the roll after the battle]
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You're alive.
Pte. Fred Hitch: I am? Oh, thanks very much.

Bromhead: [mounted, crossing stream] Hot work?
Chard: [kneeling in stream] Damned hot work.
Bromhead: Still the river cooled you off a bit though, eh? [pauses]
Bromhead: Who are you?
Chard: John Chard, Royal Engineers.
Bromhead: Bromhead. 24th. That's my post... up there. [points into distance]
Bromhead: You've come down from the column?
Chard: That's right. They want a bridge across the river.
Bromhead: Who said you could use my men?
Chard: They were sitting around on their backsides doing nothing.
Bromhead: Rather you asked first old boy.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: I was told that officer was out hunting.
Bromhead: Err... yes. [spurs on horse]
Bromhead: I'll tell my man to clean your kit.
Chard: Don't bother!
Bromhead: No bother - not offering to clean it myself! Still - a chap ought to look smart in front of the men - don't you think? Well chin-chin - do carry on with your mud pies.

Bromhead: Fire at will!
Pte. Owen: That's very nice of him.

[to the wounded Hook]
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: This is going to hurt you a lot more then it will me, I'm happy to say.

Cpl. William Allen: Heave! Put a bit more weight on that rope you men!
Pvt. John Williams: He's even got a voice like a corporal
Pvt. Fred Hitch: Yeah, sort of like a female hippopotamus in labor.

[to Chard and his team of bridge builders]
Bromhead: Well, chin chin. Do carry on with your mud pies.

Colour Sergeant Bourne: The Lord of Hosts is with us.
Cpl. William Allen: I hope so... as I live and die, I hope so.

Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: I belong to the Natal Mounted Police.
Pvt. William Jones: Is that true then? He's come to arrest the Zulus.

Adendorff: Haven't you had enough? Both of you! My god, can't you see it's all over! Your bloody egos don't matter anymore. We're dead!

Chard: You didn't say a thing to help, Bromhead.
Bromhead: Well, when you take command, old boy, you're on your own. One of the first things that the general, my grandfather, ever taught me.

Chard: [the Zulus are chanting before their final charge] Do you think the Welsh can do better than that, Owen?
Pte. Owen: Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors, that's for sure.

Pvt. William Jones: What's he up to, 593?
Pte. Robert Jones: Oh, I think he wants to be hero, 716.
Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: Haven't you rednecks got names instead of numbers?
Pte. Robert Jones: 'Tis a Welsh regiment, man! I am Jones from Builth Wait, he is Jones from Builth Wells, and there are four more Joneses in C Company! Confusing, isn't it, Dutchy?

Quotes from the movie Zulu