A Quote by Anthony Burgess

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — © Anthony Burgess
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
Clever is the eunuch version of funny.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
I played a eunuch in 'Shabnam Mausi' with Ashutosh Rana and no one even knew when the film released.
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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.
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.
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.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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.
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