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

- Richard Burton

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

- Richard Burton

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

- Richard Burton

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

- 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 t…

- Richard Burton

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

- Richard Burton

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 t…

- Richard Burton

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

- 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