Author: Richard Burton

Quotes

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

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

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

I always speak Welsh to my family.

I always speak Welsh to my family.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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