Christine Keeler quotes

Christine Keeler was an English model and showgirl, most famous for her role in the Profumo affair political scandal of the 1960s. Her relationships with high-profile figures brought intense media attention and controversy. She became a symbol of the changing social attitudes and scandals of her era. Here are 26 of her quotes:

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. (Christine Keeler)

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Christine Keeler

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

Christine Keeler

I enjoyed sex and indulged in it when I fancied the men.

Christine Keeler

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christine Keeler

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Christine Keeler

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Christine Keeler

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it. (Christine Keeler)

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

Christine Keeler

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Christine Keeler

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

Christine Keeler

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

Christine Keeler

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christine Keeler

They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.

Christine Keeler

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Christine Keeler

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Christine Keeler

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Christine Keeler

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it. (Christine Keeler)

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Christine Keeler

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Christine Keeler

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

Christine Keeler

I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.

Christine Keeler

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Christine Keeler

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Occupation: English Model
Born: February 22, 1942
Died: December 4, 2017
Quotes count: 26

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