Richard Burton Quotes

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

Life, Friendship, True

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

Study, Himself, Religions

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

Gold, Riches, Carries

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

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

Love, Her, Child

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

Bad, Become, Welsh

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

Angry, Race, 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

Drunk, Play, Sober

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

Justice, May, Please

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

Life, Important, Strange

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

Woman, While, Less

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

Cannot, Sea, Large

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

Work, Others, Fat

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

Almost, Diamond

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Actor

Born: November 10, 1925

Died: August 5, 1984

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