Author: Richard Burton

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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