Richard Burton Quotations

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

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.

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.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

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.

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds

Our July was a record month as far as total vehicle sales for cars and trucks.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause? Henoblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his selfmadelaw.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do,/ From none but self expect applause:/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Some people may want to look at a new car, but then not want to invest that much. And then they switch over to a used car.

Once we met we had so much in common that we wanted to be together all the time.

They've even started on some 2006 models. And it's also had a very positive effect on used cars.

I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.