English Quotes

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

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

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

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

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

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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