Does it really matter what these affectionate people do – so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs Patrick Campbell (Speaking of some actors reputed be homosexuals)
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him. Christopher Isherwood
In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality. Marguerite Duras
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity. Derek Jarman
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. Gore Vidal
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond. W H Auden
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. Warren E Burger
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies. Dorothy Parker
I, for one, do not think homosexuality is the latest advance over heterosexuality in the scale of human evolution. Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. Eldridge Cleaver
I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics. Armistead Maupin
This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French – but we are British, thank God. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery