Famous quotes containing the words richard burton, sir, richard and/or burton:
“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
—Richard Burton (1925–1984)
“When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
—Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)