George: Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?


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

George: Martha's got money because Martha's father's second wife, not Martha's mother but after Martha's mother died, was a very old lady with warts who was very rich.
Nick: She was a witch!
George: She was a good witch, and she married the white mouse with the tiny red eyes and he must have nibbled her warts or something like that, because she went up in a puff of smoke almost immediately. Poof!
Nick: Poof!
George: Poof! And all that was left, aside from some wart medicine, was a big fat will.
Nick: Your wife never mentioned a stepmother.
George: Maybe it isn't true.


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

George: Vanish!


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

George: You take the trouble to construct a civilization, to build a society based on the principles of... of principle. You make government and art and realize that they are, must be, both the same. You bring things to the saddest of all points, to the point where there is something to lose. Then, all at once, through all the music, through all the sensible sounds of men building, attempting, comes the Dies Irae. And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours.


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

Harry Leeds, Owner of Chez Harry: Charlie, look! Charlie, look! They're making love, they're making love!


--Richard Burton (as ) in Staircase

Jimmy Porter: [Last words] Don't let yourself down.


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

Jimmy Porter: [singing] Don't be afraid to sleep with your sweetheart, just because she's better than you.


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

Jimmy Porter: All because I want something from that girl I know in my heart she's incapable of giving.


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

Jimmy Porter: Are you a good actress?
Helena Charles: Oh really!
Jimmy Porter: Since we're going to have you for 2 solid weeks I only hope its going to be worthwhile, that it adds to the sum of human happiness.


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

Jimmy Porter: Do you know brother Nigel?
Cliff Lewis: No I don't.
Jimmy Porter: You never heard so many well-bred commonplaces come from beneath the same bowler hat, the platitude from outer space, that's brother Nigel.


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