Richard Burton Quotes

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Richard Burton

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 10, 1925

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Richard Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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.

Richard Burton

I hate myself and my face in particular.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

Richard Burton

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

How terrible a thing time is.

Richard Burton

I abhor mere prettiness.

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 few times to stop the weeping.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

I'm so weak at saying no.

Richard Burton

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.

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 met a nice poet.

Richard Burton

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

Richard Burton

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

Richard Burton

I always speak Welsh to my family.

Richard Burton

How drab people are, especially from the press.

Richard Burton