Richard Burton quotes:

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

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

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

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

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

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

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

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

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

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