The Burtons

“I cannot imagine life without him. I love him. I adore him. Our love is so deep that I don’t give a goddamn what people think or say about us. If you have a real relationship with your lover, you can do anything and make it magic.” - Elizabeth Taylor


“She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She … [was] famine, fire, destruction and plague … the only true begetter. Her breasts were apocalyptic, they would topple empires before they withered … her body was a miracle of construction … She was unquestionably gorgeous. She was lavish. She was a dark, unyielding largesse. She was, in short, too bloody much … Those huge violet blue eyes… had an odd glint… Aeons passed, civilizations came and went while these cosmic headlights examined my flawed personality. Every pockmark on my face became a crater of the moon.” — Richard Burton




“She is a wildly exciting love-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and willful, she is clement and loving… she tolerates my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I’m away from her, and she loves me! … And I’ll love her till I die.” — Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor


“I introduced Elizabeth to beer; she introduced me to Bulgari.” — Richard Burton


“Richard is a very sexy man. He’s got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense.” — Elizabeth Taylor


I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.” - Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor