Words matter. These are the best Richard Burton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?
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.
Let’s have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
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.
How terrible a thing time is.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
The Welsh are all actors. It’s only the bad ones who become professional.
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
You’ve got to swank in Hollywood.
Sometimes I am so much my father’s son that I give myself occasional creeps.
‘The Robe’ was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.
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.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
I hate myself and my face in particular.
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
What an extraordinary world it is.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
I’m so weak at saying no.
Every word I write I suspect the next day.
I didn’t speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
I’ve got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.
Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw… has played it.
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.
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 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.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
