Sir Richard Burton

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

    “People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
    —Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)

    “See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,
    As doth the blushing discontented sun
    From out the fiery portal of the east.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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