Top 200 Elvis Presley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.”

— Elvis Presley

102. “I’ll stay in Memphis.”

— Elvis Presley

103. “The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.”

— Elvis Presley

104. “Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I’d be nowhere without them.”

— Elvis Presley

105. “I’d rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”

— Elvis Presley

106. “The man who can sing when he hasn’t got a thing, he’s the king of the whole wide world.”

— Elvis Presley

107. “I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.”

— Elvis Presley

108. “I look at you and wham, I’m head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.”

— Elvis Presley

109. “We’re the perfect combination. Colonel’s an old carny, and me, I’m off the wall.”

— Elvis Presley

110. “I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.”

— Elvis Presley

111. “I don’t do any vulgar movements.”

— Elvis Presley

112. “I’ve come too far, and I don’t know how to get back.”

— Elvis Presley

113. “Ah just act the way ah feel.”

— Elvis Presley

114. “I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I’m in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.”

— Elvis Presley

115. “Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”

— Elvis Presley

116. “I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.”

— Elvis Presley

117. “The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn’t get that, I’d get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.”

— Elvis Presley

118. “I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It’s the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.”

— Elvis Presley

119. “Number 47 said to number 3, you’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.”

— Elvis Presley

120. “I’ve had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It’s more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don’t come back for an encore.”

— Elvis Presley

121. “I thought that I was in heaven But I was sure surprised Heaven help me, I didn’t see The devil in your eyes You look like an angel Walk like an angel Talk like an angel But I got wise You’re the devil in disguise Oh yes you are The devil in disguise.”

— Elvis Presley

122. “I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.”

— Elvis Presley

123. “I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.”

— Elvis Presley

124. “Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you’ll surely find the way.”

— Elvis Presley

125. “I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.”

— Elvis Presley

126. “How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I’m feeling sad.”

— Elvis Presley

127. “Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn’t tear us apart.”

— Elvis Presley

128. “I wore glasses, no music, and I won – I think it was – fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.”

— Elvis Presley

129. “The child needs a helping hand or he’ll grow up to be an angry young man some day.”

— Elvis Presley

130. “I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.”

— Elvis Presley

131. “When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.”

— Elvis Presley

132. “I want to entertain people. That’s my whole life. To my last breath.”

— Elvis Presley

133. “If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.”

— Elvis Presley

134. “She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that’s hot.”

— Elvis Presley

135. “Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.”

— Elvis Presley

136. “Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.”

— Elvis Presley

137. “The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.”

— Elvis Presley

138. “I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.”

— Elvis Presley

139. “Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister done.”

— Elvis Presley

140. “I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.”

— Elvis Presley

141. “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”

— Elvis Presley

142. “After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.”

— Elvis Presley

143. “I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”

— Elvis Presley

144. “When I get married, it’ll be no secret.”

— Elvis Presley

145. “I can’t sing very well but I’d like to try.”

— Elvis Presley

146. “Her little sister will tell you she don’t live here anymore.”

— Elvis Presley

147. “I didn’t know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.”

— Elvis Presley

148. “I like entertaining people. I really miss it.”

— Elvis Presley

149. “I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.”

— Elvis Presley

150. “I miss my singing career very much.”

— Elvis Presley