Famous Quotes / Sir Richard Burton
7 Quotations by Sir Richard Burton
- 1. A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
- 2. An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
- 3. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
- 4. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne ...
- 5. They lard their lean books with the fat of others' work.
- 6. Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
- 7. When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.