I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger. — Ronald Firbank Copy Share Image
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed…And if I am not a good man, I have no just right… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants,… — Bible Copy Share Image
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your… — Bible Copy Share Image
I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something… — William Powell Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Prominent among the Hettite priests were the Galli or eunuchs, who on the days of festival cut their arms and scourged themselves… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“Pacuvius, who by long occupancy made Syria his own,8 used to hold a regular burial sacrifice in his own honour, with wine… — Seneca Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know… — Miguel Copy Share Image
There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders.… — Hamilton Morris Copy Share Image
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television. — John Cho Copy Share Image
“Neutrality may be useful, but it's useful like eunuchs are useful. Once you cut off their balls they grow big and strong,… — Vaughn Sherman Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
