Top 35 Richard Llewellyn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes.”

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2. “How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”

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3. “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

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4. “Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.”

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5. “There is a spirit greater than you, always within reach of you, but he only comes to take charge when your own spirit is lost, and cries out in his own tongue, which you cannot know but only feel, and it is in feeling that you will have orders. Yet not even in feeling, for I felt nothing, only surprise that I was going forward.”

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6. “There is good a cup of tea is when you are feeling low. Thin, and plenty of milk, and brown sugar in the crystal, in a big cup so that when your mouth is used to the heat you can drink instead of sipping. Every part of you inside you that seems to have gone to sleep comes lively again. A good friend of mine is a cup of tea, indeed. When.”

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7. “Bad news has good legs.”

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8. “But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you, when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.”

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9. “There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.”

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10. “I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”

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11. “Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.”

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12. “There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”

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13. “Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.”

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14. “In dignity and harmony, in rich beauty rose their voices now employed in noble purpose. Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.”

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15. “Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.”

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16. “Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.”

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17. “Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work.”

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18. “I want you all to think not only of yourselves and your families but everybody else who is alive. We are all equal, and all of us need helping and there is nobody to help mankind except mankind.”

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19. “The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”

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20. “So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land.”

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21. “Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.”

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22. “But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not in use to tell of it, and to use the words that are is only a hopping on uneven crutches.”

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23. “A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.”

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24. “Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.”

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25. “So with Dr. Johnson and John Stuart Mill, and Spencer, and William Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and Milton, and John Bunyan, and others of that royal company of bards, thanks to my father and Mr. Gruffydd, I was acquainted, more than plenty of other boys, and thus had a lasting benefit in school.”

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26. “You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.”

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27. “Well,” my mother said, and she was not exactly smiling, but as though she was wrapping a smile inside a thought.”

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28. “There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.”

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29. “The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was.”

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30. “O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”

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31. “In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with what they put into the air about them, each knowing what the other was saying, and having strength one from the other, for they had been learning through forty years of being together, and their minds were one.”

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32. “It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”

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33. “It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more...”

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34. “And I wanted to be as I had been yesterday, a boy again, without the heaviness of doubt, this pressing fear, this new treachery that lifted to realms of singing gold, and in a little space, flung to pits of night.”

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35. “Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.”

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36. “You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.”

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37. “A good friend of mine is a cup of tea indeed.”

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38. “So I kissed her, and went out, and up on top of the mountain to have peace, for I had a grudge that was savage with heat against everybody, and only up on top there, where it was green, and high, and blue, and quiet, with only the winds to come at you, was a place of rest, where the unkindness of man for man could be forgotten, and I could wait for God to send calm and wisdom, and O, a blessed ease.”

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39. “Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.”

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