Richard Burton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984

Topics

LifeManMemoryDreamImportant

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

PunishmentNationCapitalMustWorse

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

LifeHopePeopleCheatFavorFooled

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

LifeDayLearnEvery DayLateHour

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Smedley Butler

BusinessTimeManCapitalismShort

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Judd Nelson

FriendFriendsPreciousClose Friends

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

Dick Bruna

TimeEarlyNeverBooksChangedLot

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

Clive Standen

LoveEasyExcitedBecauseGetVery

Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.

Bruce Rauner

StartStopGrowingHealthyWillGet

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

Anya Taylor-Joy

DanceActingReally

I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

Anne Wojcicki

GodMomFreeI CanCheapUp

Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.

Shawn Amos

WomanManAliveHerCoolest

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

ForgivenessWiseStupidForgetNaive

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