59 Quotes by Richard Burton

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

I abhor mere prettiness.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.

I'm so weak at saying no.

I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.

The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.