Author: Richard Burton

Quotes

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

- Richard Burton

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

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

- Richard Burton

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

- Richard Burton

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

- Richard Burton

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

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

- Richard Burton

I always speak Welsh to my family.

I always speak Welsh to my family.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Richard Burton

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