Eunuch Quotes

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)
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. View quote
John Updike
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger. View quote
Ronald Firbank
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. View quote
John Braine
This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write. View quote
Germaine Greer
The love of country is a deep and universal instinct, freighted with ancient memories and subtle associations. Men who deny their national spiritual heritage in exchange for a vague and watery cosmopolitanism become less than men; they starve and dwarf their personalities; they turn into a sort of political eunuch. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. ... No eunuch ever wrote a book. View quote
Taylor Caldwell