Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley Quotes

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.

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

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

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

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.

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

But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment.Those times, those people...have gone. How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

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

...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

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

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

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.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

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

Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.

It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, 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.

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

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

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

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.