Sir Richard Burton Quotes

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

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

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

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.
Sir Richard Burton

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

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

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

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

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.
Sir Richard Burton

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.
Sir Richard Burton

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