Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.


Jonathon Green (ed.) A Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)


Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.