A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. – Richard Burton
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. – Richard Burton
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 other out. – Richard Burton
Let’s have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical. – Richard Burton
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. – 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
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk. – Richard Burton
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman. – 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
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. – Richard Burton
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine. – Richard Burton
