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  • Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

    Men   Asian   Cinema  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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 (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”
  • Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

    "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.
  • 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 (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
  • I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

    Home   Average   Remember  
    'The Flower Beneath the Foot' (1923) ch. 4
  • 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.

    Art   Men   Done  
    Source: www.clydefitchreport.com
  • 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.

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

  • Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

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

  • Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

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

  • 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)

    Father   Night   Hair  
  • Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

    Art   Men   Literature  
  • 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.

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

    Cutting   Men   Truth Is  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.99, Bantam
  • Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

    'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88
  • 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.

    Time   Rain   Roots  
    'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)
  • 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.

    Sweet   Voice   Sound  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.756, Bantam
  • 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.

    Love   Men   Imagination  
    John Quincy Adams (1876). “Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848”, p.353
  • 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 (1967). “Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman”, Macmillan Pub Co
  • A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

    Eye   Critics   Harem  
  • I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

    Art   Thinking   Priests  
    Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • 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 (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.231, Bantam
  • Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

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

    Attitude   Sick   People  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

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

    Funny   Sex   War  
    Self-Consciousness ch. 4 (1989)
  • 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.

    Wall   Eye   History  
    Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.237, Modern Library
  • 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 (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.988, e-artnow
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