Famous quotes containing the words eunuch and/or power:
“Would he adore a sultan? he obey
The intellectual eunuch Castlereagh?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at least in our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)