Richard Burton Quotes

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Please

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Drunk, Play, Sober

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angry, Race, Poets

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Diamond

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Others, Fat, Books

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Become, Actors

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Study, Himself

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Look

• Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Knows, Indeed

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rubbish, Best

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning, Done, 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still, Child

• 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

  Topics in Dream, Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Strange, dream

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in New, True

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, While, Less

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

  Richard Burton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gold, Riches

Richard Burton (16)

Birth:	10th November, 1925
Death:	5th August, 1984
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Actor

About

Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor
in a Leading Role, and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.

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