All quotations and phrases said by Richard Burton including famous quotes

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
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If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
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You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
-- Richard Burton

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