Sir Richard Burton

Famous quotes containing the words sir, richard and/or burton:

    “Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
    —Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)

    “I don’t know how you feel, professor, but I feel like a knife that’s just stabbed a friend in the back.”
    —Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas)

    “They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
    —Robert Burton (1577–1640)