Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

— Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny…

— Richard Francis Burton

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

— Richard Francis Burton

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

— Richard Francis Burton

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again: Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years…

— Richard Francis Burton

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

— Richard Francis Burton

“O genius," I said, "you see that this Sultan was not content with merely forgiving the envious man for the attempt on…

— Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the…

— Richard Francis Burton

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

— Richard Francis Burton

“Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things;…

— Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one…

— Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

— Richard Francis Burton

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue...

— Richard Francis Burton

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are…

— Richard Francis Burton

“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and…

— Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

— Richard Francis Burton

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…

— Richard Francis Burton

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and…

— Richard Francis Burton

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like…

— Richard Francis Burton

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little…

— Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

— Richard Francis Burton

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

— Richard Francis Burton

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

— Richard Francis Burton