Richard Burton Quotes
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Man, Study)
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Play)
"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Poets, Race)
"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Justice, May, Will)
"This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip."
- Richard Burton
"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Work, Books)
"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Actors)
"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Islands, Sea, Wishing)
"Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know."
- Richard Burton
"If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it."
- Richard Burton
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Order)
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Love, Baby, Years)
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Friendship, Life, Animation, Ivy)
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Gold, Man)
"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Life, Dream, Events, Man, Memory, Trifles)