Eunuchs Quotes

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

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

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

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.

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.

What astounded me most amid my new surroundings was to find that the eunuchs, whom I had always thought of as contemptible creatures, were in reality beings of great importance, and that some of them enjoyed the confidence of the ruler even in state affairs, and that they were all treated with the greatest deference by the highest officials. I was warned on no account to offend one of them, as they had it in their power to do harm to any one, no matter what his rank might be, to whom they took a dislike.

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

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.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

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!

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

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.