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

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.