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I always speak Welsh to my family.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

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

What an extraordinary world it is.

Richard Burton

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

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

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

Richard Burton

How terrible a thing time is.

Richard Burton

I'm so weak at saying no.

Richard Burton

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

I always speak Welsh to my family.

Richard Burton

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

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

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

Richard Burton

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

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

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