Gavin Esler quotes

Gavin Esler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.”
-- Gavin Esler

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“The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.”
“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”
“I donâ€™t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? Itâ€™s not because thereâ€™s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.”
“In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.”
“I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.”
“Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”

Source : In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13
“Some of us want the crown before the cross.”
“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”

Source : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”
“There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 41), 1997.

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