Eunuchs Quotes

• 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

  Real, Enough, Individual

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.

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• A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Eye, Critics, Harem

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• Los críticos son como eunucos en un harén; saben cómo se hace, lo han visto hacer todos los días, pero son incapaces de hacerlo ellos mismos.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Editors, Criticism

  "ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER; Breathing Rarefied Air", www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1990.

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• A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Cutting, Men

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• 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

  Cutting, Men, Truth Is

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.99, Bantam

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• Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

  Hippocrates

  Gota

  Hippocrates (1900*). “Aphorisms”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

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• Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

  Michael Foot

  Thinking, Selected, Chamber

  'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88

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• La Cámara de los Lores, una ilusión a la que nunca he podido suscribir - responsabilidad sin poder, la prerrogativa del eunuco a través de los tiempos.

  Tom Stoppard

  Responsibility, House, Age

  Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) pt. 6. Cf. Rudyard Kipling

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• Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

  Brendan Behan

  Crítica

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Love, Men, Imagination

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848”, p.353

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• Unlearned men of books assume the care,
  As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

  Edward Young

  Book, Men, Library

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.357

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• En la movida El último emperador, el joven niño ungido como último emperador de China vive una mágica vida de lujo con mil sirvientes eunucos a sus órdenes. "¿Qué pasa cuando haces el mal?", le pregunta su hermano. "Cuando lo hago mal, otro es castigado", responde el niño emperador. Para demostrarlo, rompe una vasija, y uno de los sirvientes es golpeado. En la teología cristiana, Jesús invirtió ese antiguo modelo: cuando los sirvientes se equivocaban, el Rey era castigado. La gracia sólo es gratuita porque el que la da ha asumido el coste.

  Philip Yancey

  Cristiano, Religioso, Hermano

  Philip Yancey (1997). "What's So Amazing about Grace?", p.67, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Art, Boys, Oil

  "La naranja mecánica". Libro de Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• Me mata ser eunuco del tiempo y no engendrar nunca.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Kill Me, Begets

  1885 Carta a Robert Bridges, 1 Sep. Recogida en C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

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• I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

  Ronald Firbank

  Home, Average, Remember

  'The Flower Beneath the Foot' (1923) ch. 4

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• Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

  George Burns

  Bangs, Gang, Critics

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• 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

  Men, Wife, Good Man

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• The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

  George R. R. Martin

  Might, Faces, Lips

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.1046, Bantam

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• God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Sick, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). "La buena vida según Hemingway", Ecco

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• Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

  George Meyer

  Clever, Versions

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• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

  John Braine

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.

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• 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

  Art, Men, Literature

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• 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

  Hollywood, Watches, Screenwriters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Book, Taken, Voice

  George Orwell (1998). "Las obras completas de George Orwell"

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