Quentin Crisp Quotes About Homosexuality

Quotes about: Homosexuality

• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

• I became one of the stately homos of England.

  Quentin Crisp

  England, Homosexuality

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 24 (1968) See Hemans 3; Woolf 4

• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Greek, Monsters

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

• Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

  Quentin Crisp

  Faces, Becoming, Homosexuality

  "How to Become a Virgin". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 6, 1981.

• My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

  Quentin Crisp

  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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