It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

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.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.