King of the Badgers Quotes

“... something very unusual, a chocolate-flavoured log of goats’ cheese. “Made by lesbians in Wales,” Sam had explained superfluously.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“You need to start making an effort,” Richard said. “There’s a thing called the gay scene nowadays. It happens in large cities – London, Manchester, er, wherever.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“Why do we say ‘the cockles of your heart’?” David said. “Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“The thing I truly object to,” Kitty said, “and I know this sounds trivial and I don’t care if it sounds a bit snobbish, but I don’t care about these awful people and I do care about this. It’s that the whole world now thinks about Hanmouth as being this sort of awful council estate and nothing else, and Hanmouth people like this awful Heidi and Micky people. Absolutely everything you read in the papers is about how they live in Hanmouth and, frankly, they don’t. They live on the Ruskin estate where I’ve never been and I hope never to go anywhere near.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers

“It’s material deprivation that starts all this off.”
“They’ve got dishwashers, Miranda,” Billa said. “They’re not examples of material deprivation.”
― Philip Hensher, King of the Badgers