Morrissey Quotes

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

I find Christmas very difficult.

Most people keep their brains between their legs.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Nature is a language - can't you read?

I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

We Hate William and Kate

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

I'm not very good at being dull.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

Wow, I do have all day and I get to choose.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

We hate it when our friends become successful.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

I'd love to...but only with you.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.