Day Quote by Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

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…

— Richard Burton

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

— Richard Burton

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

— Richard Burton

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

— Richard Burton

What an extraordinary world it is.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

— Richard Burton

I'm so weak at saying no.

— Richard Burton

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

— Richard Burton