Eunuch Quotes
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Birds build but 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— 'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (1889)
But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1819 'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscriberesponsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. See Baldwin 54:46.
SirTom originally Tom Straussler Stoppard— 1966 Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, pt.6.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
— New York Times, 7 October 1962
It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.
gerard manley hopkins— Letter to Robert Bridges (September 1, 1885)
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— Ch. 6: An Honourable DeathThis is a reference to a quote of Rudyard Kipling, "Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages," which became widely known after being quoted by prime minister Stanley Baldwin in a speech of 1931-03-17.
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— Ch. 4 (Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989))
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
— New York Times, 7 October 1962
