Christine Keeler Quotes

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

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

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

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

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

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

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

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

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

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

All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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