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

#decays #embraces #false #friendship #gives

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

— Richard Burton

#carries #eats #enjoys #gold #like

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

— Richard Burton

#anything #convinced #himself #i #i am

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

#burn #child #each #furious #her

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

— Richard Burton

#become #ones #only #professional #welsh

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race. ↗

— Richard Burton

#like #mostly #poets #race #travelers

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

— Richard Burton

#drunk #drunks #had #how #i

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

— Richard Burton

#actress #less #man #more #something

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

#dream #events #hazy #how #important

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

— Richard Burton

#done #go #i #morning #most