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Letter "R" » Richard Burton Quotes
«The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional»
Author: Richard Burton
(Actor)
«Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own»
«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»
«I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning»
«If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.»
«A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.»
«If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.»
«Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know»
Author: Richard Burton
(Actor)
«Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow»
«Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.»
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