Steven Morrissey Quotes - Page 4

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

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

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

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

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

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

You are bound to pick up influences.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.