Richard Burton Quotes

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• 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.
• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
• A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
• 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…
• I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
• 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.
• If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
• You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
• 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…
• They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
• An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
• 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…
• If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.
• The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
• Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

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