Quotes by Burton, Robert

"The devil is the author of confusion."

Burton, Robert on evil
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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

Burton, Robert on ambition   

"They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud."

Burton, Robert on humility   

"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

Burton, Robert on idleness   

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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

Burton, Robert on marriage   

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"What can't be cured must be endured."

Burton, Robert on medicine   

"England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women."

Burton, Robert on nationalities and nationalism   

"A mere scholar, a mere ass."

Burton, Robert on scholars and scholarship   

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"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."

Burton, Robert on smoking   

"I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together."

Burton, Robert on wine   

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

Burton, Robert on words   

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"The fear of death is worse than death."

Burton, Robert on death
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