"A man's library is a sort of harem." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Harem Quotes

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• Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're… — Brendan Behan
• I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and… — Margaret Cho
• A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love. — Unknown Author
• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire… — Robertson Davies
• Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents -- doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World… — Lewis Black
• I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain… — Sue Townsend
• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature… — Fatema Mernissi
• Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn… — Fatema Mernissi
• The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine
• After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of… — Dorothy Dunnett
• If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett

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