Author: 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.

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

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

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'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 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

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

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

- Richard Burton

I always speak Welsh to my family.

I always speak Welsh to my family.

- Richard Burton

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