Sir Richard Burton Quotes
Sir Richard Francis Burton was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat.
(1821 - 1890)
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Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
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Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; he noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, a breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.
[Man]
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I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
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Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives'.
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
[Religion]
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
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Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
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