Zitat des Tages von Richard Burton:
I hate myself and my face in particular.
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.
What an extraordinary world it is.
Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.
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.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.
You've got to swank in Hollywood.
How terrible a thing time is.
I'm so weak at saying no.
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.
It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
I always speak Welsh to my family.
Every word I write I suspect the next day.
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.
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
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.
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.