Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do wi...th my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great questions of freedom for the slaves and the unity of the Nation, liberty and nationality, are now settled. No political ...or party revolutions can unsettle the established facts, that all men are to have in this country equal civil and political rights, and that the United States form one people, one nation. The small questions of today about taxation, appointments, etc., etc., are petty and uninteresting. I cannot consent, after having borne my part in the glorious struggle against slavery during the last seventeen years, now to endure the worry and anxiety belonging to political life for the sake of the honors merely, and without subjects interesting me deeply involved in the struggles.... I am not a candidate, and shall avoid being made one, for the senatorship or for any other high office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;... And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Methinks King Richard and myself should meet With no less terror than the elements... Of fire and water, when their thundering shock At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,... Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious, Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,... God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay A glorious angel. Then if angels fight, Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »