Richard Francis Burton Quotes

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

Anger is short-lived madness.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.

I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

I got the idea she'd done her makeup up special for this. Not that she needed much. She was utterly and completely beautiful, except for the hate shining in her eyes.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

What happened, then? You're stomping through every puddle you can find and look like you're going to punch the first person you see." "Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?" "Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty

Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)