Top 87 Horsley Quotes
#1. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.
Stephen Richards
#2. Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Samuel Horsley
#3. I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.
Sebastian Horsley
#4. We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley
#5. To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.
Sebastian Horsley
#7. We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.
Sebastian Horsley
#8. Fear was keeping this loon going, as he was scrambling under the tables in this packed club, it was as if he was in a Carry On film and trying to hide from me. As the bouncers arrived, I was putting the boot in to the plonker without much success. He was like a bumblebee on speed!
Stephen Richards
#9. But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
Sebastian Horsley
#10. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#11. My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
Sebastian Horsley
#12. That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a 'no win' situation.
Stephen Richards
#13. If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.
Sebastian Horsley
#14. The films of Saturday Night Fever and Grease were all the rage and I'll admit, I went to see Grease at the local ABC Cinema with a few of my mates. You'd be surprised at how many so-called 'hard' lads that would be stood in the queue waiting to see Grease.
Stephen Richards
#15. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#16. I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
Sebastian Horsley
#17. But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.
Kate Horsley
#18. If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
Sebastian Horsley
#19. Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
Sebastian Horsley
#20. He lost a few teeth and wet himself in to the next century. I looked up at his mates and none of them would look me in the face.
Stephen Richards
#22. When you change a belief you change a mental construction and, therefore, your life.
Kevin Horsley
#24. People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.
Sebastian Horsley
#25. I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
Sebastian Horsley
#27. Why hang about in long drawn out fights, you want them to be over as quick as possible and I was blessed with a pitiless punch that sorted the men out from the boys. The only drawback to having such a vicious punch is that my hands have been broken so many times over the years.
Stephen Richards
#28. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#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
#30. An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
Sebastian Horsley
#32. Everyone used to laugh at him because he was the first one to do it. This was all new to people and it took a bit for everyone to get used to it. Then ... yes, you've guessed, I too dyed my hair and other people followed suit as well and the punk explosion was about to hit the scene in a big way.
Stephen Richards
#33. I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.
Sebastian Horsley
#34. Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.
Kate Horsley
#35. I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
Sebastian Horsley
#36. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#37. The self is a thought that tells itself that thought is a self.
Jasun Horsley
#38. After about five minutes had passed, I went outside and they'd gone. When I checked my hand to see if my knuckles were swelling or any bruising was coming up I got a shock, there was false tan on my knuckles! I still chuckle about that to this day.
Stephen Richards
#39. I must have been crazy for taking that fight, I should have told Anth to get on his bike, but what made it worse was I knew if I were in shape I'd have beaten him inside of two rounds. Some people reckon fighters must have a little madness in them, I reckon they might be right.
Stephen Richards
#40. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
Sebastian Horsley
#41. Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
Sebastian Horsley
#42. It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Kate Horsley
#43. After my victory at the Warriors 1, the self-proclaimed and well named Monarch of the Underworld, Dave Courtney, came up to me and commended me when he said, 'Richy, you can hit, I'm fucking glad you're not hitting me.' The way Dave said it and the expression on his face made me laugh.
Stephen Richards
#44. My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.
Sebastian Horsley
#45. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
Sebastian Horsley
#46. Eventually, it was around midnight, I was told to get ready and put the gloves on. I felt physically depleted and drained of energy, and had no get-up-and-go left in me. I wanted a bed badly, not a boxing ring.
Stephen Richards
#47. Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
Sebastian Horsley
#49. I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!
Stephen Richards
#50. I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
Sebastian Horsley
#51. Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.
Kate Horsley
#52. Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
Sebastian Horsley
#53. 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
#54. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#55. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#56. It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
Kate Horsley
#57. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#58. As they crept closer, I decided to make my move first and surprise them. I selected my prey, the biggest one! The reasoning behind this is that if you deck the largest and strongest one out of a group then it sends out a clear-cut message to the rest of them.
Stephen Richards
#59. [ ... ] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [ ... ]
Sebastian Horsley
#60. A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.
Sebastian Horsley
#61. I went for a private sitting with a clairvoyant and got some really good messages off him, but one thing that did frighten me was when he said, 'I can see a lot of fist fighting with you.
Stephen Richards
#63. In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.
Stephen Richards
#64. Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.
Richard A. Horsley
#65. Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.
Stephen Richards
#66. If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.
Sebastian Horsley
#67. Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
Sebastian Horsley
#69. I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.
Sebastian Horsley
#70. Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
Samuel Horsley
#71. I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
Kate Horsley
#72. The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.
Samuel Horsley
#73. I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand ... if I'm holding a calculator.
Sebastian Horsley
#74. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#75. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#76. 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
#77. the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.
Kate Horsley
#78. As they carried him out, one of his mates came back in and said to me, 'Do it too me, go on, fucking try it with me.'
I obliged and I flattened him as well and he was laid out in the ambulance next to Big John heading for the casualty department.
Stephen Richards
#79. I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
Sebastian Horsley
#80. I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
Sebastian Horsley
#81. He was very cock sure of himself. He came at me and threw a big slow right, but he was so slow that he had telegraphed it to me and I'm ready for it and block it. I put a couple of big jabs on him and he went down like the Titanic, maybe quicker.
Stephen Richards
#82. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#83. Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
Sebastian Horsley
#85. 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.
Sebastian Horsley
#86. The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.
Sebastian Horsley
#87. My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
Sebastian Horsley
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