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Top 25 Sebastian Horsley Quotes (2025 Update)

Sebastian Horsley Quote: “Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”

1. “Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”

2. “Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “People either hate me or dislike me – but I realized that people aren’t against you, they are for themselves. We’re all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.”

3. “People either hate me or dislike me – but I realized that people aren’t against you, they are for themselves. We’re all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I’d take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.”

4. “I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I’d take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

5. “Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.”

6. “A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.”

7. “If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”

8. “The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.”

9. “I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “It’s better to be quotable than honest, I don’t speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.”

10. “It’s better to be quotable than honest, I don’t speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn’t, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic – it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.”

11. “Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn’t, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic – it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “The problem I’ve got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.”

12. “The problem I’ve got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”

13. “I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “It’s really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn’t wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.”

14. “It’s really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn’t wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.”

15. “People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I didn’t want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”

16. “I didn’t want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “There’s a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you’re left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.”

17. “There’s a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you’re left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that – he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.”

18. “My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that – he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.”

19. “I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That’s what our character is for.”

20. “We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That’s what our character is for.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.”

21. “To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.”

22. “My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn’t yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”

23. “One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn’t yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I might be old, but I’m still desirable.”

24. “I might be old, but I’m still desirable.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I don’t really know what Americans are like. I’ve no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts – success in England inspires envy – in America, it inspires hope.”

25. “I don’t really know what Americans are like. I’ve no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts – success in England inspires envy – in America, it inspires hope.”

— Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley Quote: “But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone.”

26. “But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I don’t think I’m known for my gifts – I’m known for my gall. I don’t want to be just a famous person – I’m too old.”

27. “I don’t think I’m known for my gifts – I’m known for my gall. I don’t want to be just a famous person – I’m too old.”

— Sebastian Horsley

Sebastian Horsley Quote: “What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art.”

28. “What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art.”

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Sebastian Horsley Quote: “I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.”

29. “I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.”

— Sebastian Horsley

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