Christine Keeler Quotes

Christine Keeler was an English model and showgirl who became infamous for her involvement in the Profumo Affair, a major political scandal in the 1960s. Her relationships with high-profile figures, including a British cabinet minister and a Soviet naval attache, exposed a web of intrigue and compromised security. The scandal led to significant political repercussions and highlighted issues of class and morality in Britain.

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

Grave, Talking

1

"However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it."

Dress,

2

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

Life, Father, Reading

1

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

Kiss, Fathers

3

"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."

Life, Right

2

"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."

Time, Sex

1

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

Trust,

2

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

History, Books, Now, Will

1

"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."

Love, Men, Nature

4

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

Men, Sex

1

"I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10."

Man,

1

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

Woman,

1

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

Men, Trying

2

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

Sex, Rest

6

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

Hope,

1

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

Living, Misery

1

"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."

Men, Now

1

"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."

Mistake, Chance, Feet

2

"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."

Holiday, Night

2

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

October,

5

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

Father,

2

"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."

Discretion, Hypocrisy, Word

2

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

Home, Mother