59 Quotes by Richard Burton

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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