Richard Burton quotes Born: 11/10/1925 Died: 08/05/1984 Country: united_kingdom

• A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. (Richard Burton) [gold]
• An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman. (Richard Burton) [more]
• 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) [walls/life]
• 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) [strange/memory/life]
• 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) [child/love]
• I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. (Richard Burton) [order/morning]
• If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it. (Richard Burton)
• Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. (Richard Burton)
• Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. (Richard Burton) [look/wings]
• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. (Richard Burton) [more/more]
• The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. (Richard Burton) [actors/bad]
• They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. (Richard Burton) [books]
• This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. (Richard Burton)
• Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race. (Richard Burton) [poets]
• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. (Richard Burton)
• You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. (Richard Burton) [willpower/]
• An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman. Richard Burton (Richard Burton)
• Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. (Richard Burton)
• I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. (Richard Burton)
• I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. (Richard Burton)
• One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. (Richard Burton)
• Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. (Richard Burton)
• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. (Richard Burton)
• Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins. (Richard Burton)

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