Richard Burton Quotes

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

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#2. This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

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#3. They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

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#4. I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

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#5. If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

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#6. Home is where the Books are.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

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#11. An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

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#12. 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.

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#13. When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

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#14. The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

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

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