Cynthia Payne Quotes

United Kingdom, Celebrity
December 24, 1932 – November, 15, 2015.

Cynthia Payne (24 December 1932 – 15 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was acquitted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Cynthia Payne
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

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- Action
- Sex

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

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My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

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- Party
- Sex
- Tea
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

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- People
- Work
- Why
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

Cynthia Payne
I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.

Cynthia Payne
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

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- Life

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

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- Done
- Stop
- Sun
If men want sex they'll find it.

Cynthia Payne
- Men
- Sex
Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

Cynthia Payne
Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Cynthia Payne
- Time
- Boyfriend
I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

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- Fall
I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

Cynthia Payne
- Good