298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.