Richard Burton Quotes

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

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

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

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 have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

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.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

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.

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

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