Quotes

What do these rumours amount to? They amount to the fact that a Minister is said to be acquainted with a particularly pretty girl. I should have thought that were a matter of congratulation rather than enquiry.

Reginald Paget 20/03/1963

On the Proumo affair.

Category: Sex Scandals

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But he couldn't have had the time!

Selwyn Lloyd

On John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler

Category: Sex Scandals

Tags: Scandal, Selwyn Lloyd, Sex Scandals

A great Party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar.

Lord Hailsham 13/06/1963

On the Profumo scandal

Category: Conservative Party, Sex Scandals

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I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.

Mandy Rice-Davies 1963

Category: Sex Scandals

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I said there had been no impropriety...that was not true and I misled you and my colleagues and the House.

John Profumo 23/03/1963

Category: Sex Scandals, Truth

Tags: John Profumo, Politics, Scandal, Sex Scandals, Truth

There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler.

John Profumo

Category: Sex Scandals

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Random Speech

We are prepared to fight for peace.

Margaret Thatcher

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