Richard Burton Quotes (25 Quotes)

At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.

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.

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

Some people may want to look at a new car, but then not want to invest that much. And then they switch over to a used car.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Once we met we had so much in common that we wanted to be together all the time.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

The County salutes the tremendous contributions of groups such as the American Red Cross and also the potential assistance of community and faith-based organizations, and looks forward to partnering with them as we seek to come along side those in need,

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

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.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell These are the dreams of baby minds Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds.

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

I'm opposed to any kind of condo development in the harbor. I think if we go with something this soon of that magnitude, then we're really shortchanging ourselves the opportunity to guide our own growth. It's so out of the realm of what we really need. We want progress but this is our chance to guide it, not let it guide us.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

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.

I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer it's rather an attractive image.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

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

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Well, I don't want to kill myself.