Gavin Esler > Quotes

“The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“Winning was never the most important thing to her. It was the only thing.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“How you see the world depends upon where you look,”
― Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

“There is no scandal unless you get caught.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“Happy love affairs are tedious literature.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“We are all, at times, in the majority. But we are also all, at times, in the minority.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.”
― Gavin Esler, A Scandalous Man

“Poverty, one might conclude, results in a poverty of opportunity and also a poverty of expectations.”
― Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

“However, before we begin to think about reinventing ourselves, we need to be clear who ‘we’ are, who we are not, and why some of ‘us’ are treated like ‘them’.”
― Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.’ The Devil, speaking in George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman”
― Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations