70 Eunuch Quotes
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Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. — Desmond Morris
He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second. — Guru Nanak
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image. — Rabbi Akiva
A man without a woman is only half a man. — Indian Proverbs
The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel. — Robert Jordan
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost — Rubin Carter
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. — H. L. Mencken
Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. — Sextus Empiricus
If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl. — Don Siegelman
The monk gets married to please his friend. — Albanian Proverbs
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. — Sun Tzu
Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. — Japanese Proverbs
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow. — Democritus
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. — Lao Tzu
Short Eunuch Quotes
- Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it. — Paul Bocuse
- To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman. — Indian Proverbs
- Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald. — Hippocrates
- Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang. — George Burns
- A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. — Walter Darby Bannard
- A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him. — Robert Burns
- Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. — Edward Young
- I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — Anthony Burgess
- Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. — Michael Foot
- Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine
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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 unable to do it themselves. — Brendan Behan
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 to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real. — William Powell
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined. — Miguel
Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed....And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation. — Heber C. Kimball
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. — Tom Stoppard
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture. — Amadeo Bordiga
Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou. — Anthony Burgess
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. — John Updike
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television. — John Cho
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy. — John Quincy Adams
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off. — George R. R. Martin
Clever is the eunuch version of funny. — George Meyer
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger. — Ronald Firbank
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves! — Brendan Behan
If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background. — Guy Murchie
How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied. — George R. R. Martin
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers. — Ernest Hemingway
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. — Paul Getty
There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities. — Hamilton Morris
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves. — Gary Busey
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production. — George Orwell
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch. — Albert Brooks
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine. — Simone de Beauvoir
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. — John Steinbeck
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. — Franz Grillparzer
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius. — Edward Gibbon
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a persian harem. To this reason, another may be added of a more honourable nature. The Germans treated their women with esteem and confidence, consulted them on every occasion of importance, and fondly believed that in their breasts resided a sanctity and wisdom more than human. — Edward Gibbon
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? — George Steiner
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality! — Leon Trotsky
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips. — George R. R. Martin
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you. — George R. R. Martin
Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra) He has your lungs. (Wulf) Oh, please! (Cassandra) Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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