Anne: Won't you kiss your daughter?
King Henry VIII: I will kiss her when she's older- and when she has a brother!


--Richard Burton (as King Henry VIII) in Anne of the Thousand Days

Katherina: Asses are made to bear, and so are you!
Petruchio: Women are made to bear, and so are you!


--Richard Burton (as ) in The Taming of the Shrew

Katherina: I knew you at the first. You were a moveable!
Petruchio: Why, what's a moveable?
Katherina: A stool like this!
[she kicks out the stool he was sitting on, and he falls on the floor]
Petruchio: Then sit on me!
[he pulls her down on his lap]
Petruchio: Our asses are made to bear and so are you!
Katherina: [she punches him] Women are made to bear and so are you!
Petruchio: Not such a load as yours if me you mean!


--Richard Burton (as ) in The Taming of the Shrew

Miss Crail: Is your handwriting legible?
Alec Leamas: Except on weekends.


--Richard Burton (as Alec Leamas) in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Peter: Let me tell you of the burden I bear. Justus told the others I was steadfast. He didn't know. The night Jesus needed me most, I denied him... not once... but 3 times. I swore I never knew him. Now...
Marcellus Gallio: [stammering, pointing to himself] I... crucified him.
Peter: I know. Demetrius told me.
Marcellus Gallio: [shocked] And you can forgive me?
Peter: He forgave you from the cross. Can I do less? Now, is there anything stopping you? Can you become one of us?
Marcellus Gallio: [new strength in his voice] From this day forward, I am enlisted in His service. I offer Him my fortune, my sword, and my life. And this I pledge to you on my honor as a Roman.


--Richard Burton (as Marcellus Gallio) in The Robe

Martha: Hey!
George: Hark! Jungle sounds.
Martha: Hey!
George: Animal noises.


--Richard Burton (as George) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Martha: Well, you're going bald.
George: So are you.


--Richard Burton (as George) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Martha: You make me puke.
George: That wasn't a very nice thing to say, Martha.


--Richard Burton (as George) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alison Porter: I suppose none of this could ever really have worked. I do love you Jimmy, I shall never love anyone as I love you, but I can't go on, I can't take part in all this suffering, I can't.
Jimmy Porter: It's no good fooling about with love you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, tidy soul, you better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint, because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world... or the next.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Baron: Becket! You are a liar. You are a traitor!
[draws his sword on Becket]
Thomas a Becket: Sheathe your sword, Morville, before you impale your soul upon it!


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket