Top 250 Steven Morrissey Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.”

— Steven Morrissey

102. “Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.”

— Steven Morrissey

103. “I don’t perform. Seals perform.”

— Steven Morrissey

104. “The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher’s assassin.”

— Steven Morrissey

105. “When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can’t pay Take the easy way and give in!”

— Steven Morrissey

106. “Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.”

— Steven Morrissey

107. “Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.”

— Steven Morrissey

108. “Finally, I can get on with someone.”

— Steven Morrissey

109. “These tears I’m wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I’ve been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.”

— Steven Morrissey

110. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle.”

— Steven Morrissey

111. “Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.”

— Steven Morrissey

112. “The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.”

— Steven Morrissey

113. “I smoke ’cos I’m hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.”

— Steven Morrissey

114. “Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes.”

— Steven Morrissey

115. “I’m not very good at being dull.”

— Steven Morrissey

116. “Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”

— Steven Morrissey

117. “Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.”

— Steven Morrissey

118. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

119. “One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.”

— Steven Morrissey

120. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

121. “I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.”

— Steven Morrissey

122. “Even now – in the final hour of my life – I’m falling in love again.”

— Steven Morrissey

123. “There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?”

— Steven Morrissey

124. “I’m just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.”

— Steven Morrissey

125. “It’s the refuge for the mentally deficient. It’s made by dull people for dull people.”

— Steven Morrissey

126. “My love, wherever you are – whatever you are – don’t lose faith. I know it’s gonna happen someday to you.”

— Steven Morrissey

127. “I find Christmas very difficult.”

— Steven Morrissey

128. “But sometimes I’d feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.”

— Steven Morrissey

129. “What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.”

— Steven Morrissey

130. “When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I’d like the words ‘Well, at least he tried’ engraved on my tombstone.”

— Steven Morrissey

131. “Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

133. “Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?”

— Steven Morrissey

134. “Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

136. “I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.”

— Steven Morrissey

137. “I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.”

— Steven Morrissey

138. “If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”

— Steven Morrissey

139. “Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money.”

— Steven Morrissey

140. “Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.”

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

142. “If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know.”

— Steven Morrissey

143. “I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.”

— Steven Morrissey

144. “I’ve been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.”

— Steven Morrissey

145. “Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.”

— Steven Morrissey

146. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

147. “Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.”

— Steven Morrissey

148. “On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come ’round.”

— Steven Morrissey

149. “Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.”

— Steven Morrissey

150. “Oh, I can’t help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.”

— Steven Morrissey