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Top 20 Richard Francis Burton Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”

2. “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

3. “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Home is where the books are.”

4. “Home is where the books are.”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.”

5. “If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.”

6. “Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”

7. “All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.”

8. “The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.”

9. “All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

10. “Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, themagic Laby’rinth’s single clue...”

11. “Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, themagic Laby’rinth’s single clue...”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another’s appetite as to thine own.”

12. “Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another’s appetite as to thine own.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “Do what thy manhood bids thee do.”

13. “Do what thy manhood bids thee do.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”

15. “One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?”

16. “When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.”

17. “The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.”

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Richard Francis Burton Quote: “The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.”

18. “The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “For each believes his glimm’ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.”

19. “For each believes his glimm’ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she did not let me drown, but transported me to an island.”

20. “One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she did not let me drown, but transported me to an island.”

— Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Quote: “How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events, religiously preserve the merest trifles.”

21. “How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events, religiously preserve the merest trifles.”

— Richard Francis Burton

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