“I don’t talk, I quote. I can’t help it,” he said. “It’s better to be quotable than honest.”

“Prostitution is obscene, debasing and disgraceful,” he concluded. “The point is, so am I.”

“We can’t all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.”
— Sebastian Horsley (Dandy in the Underworld)

”[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
— Sebastian Horsley (Dandy in the Underworld)

“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
— Sebastian Horsley (Dandy in the Underworld)

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

“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man’s endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”
— Sebastian Horsley