Accept Yourself
"I am angry, I am ill, and I'm ugly as sin"
Magazine

"Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut."
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
"A Rush, a charge from North, South, East and West [and] the land is ours"
Speranza, in an Irish nationalist magazine around the turn of the century

"A rush and a charge and the land is ours"
Traditional Irish battle cry

"...the ghost of Troubled Joe"
Probably a reference to the film Carry On Jack

Asleep
"Sing me to sleep."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney. This could be dismissed as a common phrase, but considering the wholesale plundering of both this book and the film version by Morrissey, it's fairly reasonable.

Bigmouth Strikes Again
There is a Kenny Everett (late British 80s comedian) sketch where he is burned at the stake whilst wearing a Walkman.

Cemetry Gates
"All those people, all those lives, where are they now ? Here was a woman who once lived and loved, full of the same passions, fears, jealousies, hates. And what remains of it now...? I want to cry."
The Man Who Came To Dinner, film

"The early village-cock hath twice done salutation to the morn"
Richard III, Shakespeare

Death At One's Elbow
Phrase from the Joe Orton Diaries

Death Of A Disco Dancer
"I'd rather not talk to my neighbour, I'd rather not get involved"
Poor Cow, by Nell Dun

Frankly Mr. Shankly
Name possibly from onetime Liverpool FC manager Bill Shankly

Half A Person
"YWCA." From the film and play of Ann Jellicoe's The Knack (And How To Get It), starring Rita Tushingham of A Taste of Honey fame. Rita's character is a northern girl newly arrived in London (on a coach full of priests), who spends most of the film looking for the YWCA.

"Caliban is only half a person at the best of times."
From The Collector, by John Fowles

Hand In Glove
"...and everything depends on how near you sleep to me."
"Take This Longing", by Leonard Cohen

"I'll probably never see you again. I know it."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney

Handsome Devil
A Boy In The Bush is a novel by D. H. Lawrence

"There's more to life than what you read in books."
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the Earth."
Proverb

"The Hand that Rocks The Cradle", title of Crib-detective series,1981

"Climb upon my knee, sonny boy..."
"Sonny Boy", Al Jolson

"Over the stones, rattle his bones, he's only a beggar who nobody owns."
Gray's Elegy (original source)

"So rattle her bones all over the stones, she's only a beggar-man whom nobody owns."
The Lion In Love by Shelagh Delaney (this is the most likely direct source)

The Headmaster Ritual
"...who grabs and devours ..."
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
"Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now" by Sandie Shaw

How Soon Is Now?
"To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular."
Middlemarch, by George Eliot

I Don't Owe You Anything
"I don't owe you a thing."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney

"I've had to wait for you. Now it's your turn to wait for me."
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

I Want The One I Can't Have
"Health, Health, the blessing of the Rich, the Riches of the Poor"
From Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics

"A tough kid who sometimes sleeps on nails."
Director Howard Sachler's description of James Dean.

"We all want the things we can't have."
Samantha Eggar in The Collector.

Is It Really So Strange?
Central to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is that, as a child, Ernest was found abandoned in a bag ("A handbag?") in a railway station. But not in Newport Pagnall.

"I could never never go back home again."
"24 Hours From Tulsa" by Gene Pitney

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
"Last Night Was Meant For Love" is a single by Billy Fury (who features on the single sleeve)

The opening line of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier is "Last night I dreamt of Manderley"

London
"..because you notice the jealousy of those that stay at home..."
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

Louder Than Bombs
"...louder than bombs or screams or the inside ticking of remorse..."
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

Miserable Lie
"...by his sweetness and goodness to her through the brief years of his flower-like life."
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

Nowhere Fast (and These Things Take Time)
Common phrases, however, consider this exchange:
NELL: There's no fortunes to be made around here.
ANDY: I'm working on it.
NELL: And getting nowhere fast.
ANDY: These things take time.
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

Paint A Vulgar Picture
(and You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby)
"You just haven't earned it yet, baby"
Geoff Travis

"Paint a vulgar picture"
Oscar Wilde

"Me and my true love will never meet again"
"Loch Lomond", Scottish ballad. ("Ye'll take the high road / And I'll take the low road / And I'll be in Scotland afore ye / But me and my true love will never meet again / On the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond")

Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Nature played this trick on me"
The barber in the film Victim

"Pretty girls make graves"
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

The Queen Is Dead
"The Queen Is Dead"
Last Exit To Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jnr

"Shall we go for a walk where it's quiet...?"
From the film of Billy Liar

"And I've got a brother too but he's a sad case. Tied to his mother's apron strings."
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

"Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty..." is from the film The L Shaped Room, sung by a character who is an elderly lesbian in male drag.

Reel Around The Fountain
"Take and mount me like a butterfly"
Exit Smiling - Morrissey (after From Reverence To Rape by M.Haskell)

"...like butterflies on pins."
"...reel around the cafe."
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

"You're the bee's knees, but so am I"
"I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice."
Both from the film adaptation of A Taste Of Honey by Shelagh Delaney

There is a suggestion that to "reel around the fountain" is a method of fellatio. The term has passed into common parlance as it was used, somewhat perplexingly, in Birmingham, UK, for the name of an Irish dance event in the St Patrick's Day celebrations one year.

Rubber Ring
"Everybody's clever nowadays"
The Importance Of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Rusholme Ruffians
"Fourteen Again"
The whole song is loosely based around this song by Victoria Wood

Shakespeare's Sister
"Shakespeare's Sister"
Mentioned in Virginia Woolf's feminist essay "A Room of One's Own". Also a character in Tennessee William's Glass Menagerie

"...our bones groaned like old trees..."
"rocks below could promise certain death."
From Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept.

Sheila Take A Bow
"If the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire."
"Kooks", David Bowie

LOLL: Why, are you really a boy?
PEG: Oh, I'm a girl all right.
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

"Sheila" might be a reference to Shelagh Delaney

Shoplifters Of The World Unite
"Shoplifter" might be a cheeky wink at "shirtlifter", a euphemism for homosexual

"Shopkeepers of the world"
Eminent Victorian John Ruskin said of the 1851 Great Exhibition: "I shall not enter the Exhibition; it is merely a donkey race among the shopkeepers of the world." Earlier, Napoleon Bonaparte had dubbed the English "a race of shopkeepers."

"My only weakness is ... well, never mind, never mind"
James Dean in Kraft Mystery Hour: Danger!

"It's a long time, six months."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
"Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On"
Recorded by Johnny Tillotson (1962) and Charlie Feathers (1973)

The lines about Anthony and Cleopatra are about the film Carry On Cleo. "Oooh, I say," camply delivered, is a Carry On... film dialogue staple

Still Ill
"Society owes me a living"
Myra Hindley, 1977

"We walked for miles, round the backs, right over the iron bridge and down underneath it on the towpath. We were kissing away and touching and getting really sore lips"
From Viv Nicholson's book, Spend Spend Spend.

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
"Stop Me If You've Heard It"
Short story by Noel Coward.

Strangeways, Here We Come
"Borstal, here we come"
Billy Liar

Stretch Out And Wait
"Jim, do you think that the end of the world will come at night time?"
Rebel Without A Cause

"We are here and it is now."
Men's Liberation by Jack Nichols

Suffer Little Children
"Whatever Ian has done, I have done"
Myra Hindley

"Suffer the little children to come unto me"
Whispered when Myra walked past by inmates of Hindley's jail (from the Bible; "suffer" is equivalent to "allow")

There is a play by Stanley Houghton called Hindle Wakes.

The ghostly child on the moor seems to relate to the child ghost of Catherine in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Sweet And Tender Hooligan
"In the midst of life we are in debt"
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

"In the midst of life we are in death"
Coleridge (adapted by Cook and Moore for their sketch)

Also from The Burial Service in the Book of Common Prayer

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
"I've watched this happen in other people's lives and now it's happened in ours"
Alice Adams, 1935 film starring Katherine Hepburn

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
In the 1968 film The Killing Of Sister George, one of the murder methods discussed is that of a ten-ton truck.

"It's a wonder your backside isn't the size of a ten-ton truck."
The Lion in Love, Shelagh Delaney

"I suppose I should keep on hoping he gets knocked down by a double-decker bus"
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe

"They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together."
Carol, by Patricia Highsmith, a novel about a lesbian affair.

These Things Take Time
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."
Battle Hymn of the American Republic, Julia Howe

"Our eyes have seen the glory..."
Eamon de Valera, Irish Prime Minister

The line "the hills are alive with celibate cries" could refer to the beginning of the film "The Sound of Music", where there are nuns singing on a hilltop.

(See also Nowhere Fast)

This Charming Man
"I may go out tomorrow
If I can borrow a coat to wear
Oh, I'd step out in style
With my sincere smile
And my dancing bear
Outrageous, alarming
Courageous, charming"
"Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear", Randy Newman, The Alan Price Set, The Muppets

"A jumped-up pantry boy who doesn't know his place"
From the film Sleuth starring Michael Caine

This Night Has Opened My Eyes
"You can't just wrap it up in a bundle of newspaper."
"...and dump it on a doorstep."
"That river, it's the colour of lead."
"I'm not sorry and I'm not glad."
"Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney

Vicar In A Tutu
"...combatting ignorance and disease."
From the film version of Billy Liar

"...sent to Borstal when a kid for breaking open gas meters and ripping lead from church roofs..."
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe

Well I Wonder
"... do you hear me where you sleep ?"
"... for it is the fierce last stand of all I have."
"...and cries out hoarsely my name in the night."
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

What Difference Does It Make?
"...the devil will make work for idle hands to do."
Beyond Belief, Emlyn Williams (after the Bible)

"What difference does it make?"
Terence Stamp, in the film The Collector which features on the sleeve.

What She Said
"I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold on to."
"...I wonder why no one has noticed that I am dead and taken the trouble to bury me"
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

William, It Was Really Nothing
"The rain is pouring on the foreign town, the bullets cannots cut you down."
"This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us", by Sparks

The theme of this song is borrowed from Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse, where an engagement ring features prominently.

The Associates responded with the song "Steven, It Was Really Something", so rumours popped up about Morrissey and Billy McKenzie. It was perhaps opportunism on the part of The Associates to ride on The Smiths' coat-tails.

Morrissey has said that the song is his response to 60s songs where girls warned other girls not to marry - here Morrissey warns the blokes.

You've Got Everything Now
"...as merry as the day is long."
A Taste Of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney
Originally from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.