Wales

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.

—Arnold, Matthew

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

—Bolt, Robert Oxton

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

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

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

—Fuller,Thomas

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.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

   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.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais