Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Lady Colin Campbell
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Lady Colin Campbell.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
You know what men are like when they want to get married, they want to get married.
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
When I was a young woman, my looks attracted a lot of compliments. My mother, however, could not share attention with any other human being.
I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria.
If you're writing an impartial proper biography, you speak to everyone around them who really know them, you do not need, unless you're a minister of propaganda, to have input from the person.
I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.
Let's be clear about what an oik is, it is somebody from humble circumstance who behaves like trash. I am friends with many people from humble circumstances.
Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.
I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.
I was brought up in Jamaica when people had to occupy themselves and entertain each other.
We know that the British public are obsessed with class.
I have been Lady C since 1974 when I married my husband, Lord Colin Campbell. We may be divorced, but I kept the title - not because it is specifically important to me but simply because it is my name.
People who watched me on 'I'm A Celebrity... ' saw me being true to my values.
The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth - as if hereditary titles and accidents of birth are incompatible with democracy. But if you stop to think about it, what is more democratic than nature?
It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.
My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.
When you're right, you're right, when you're wrong, you're wrong and that's all there is to it.
There's something about me, even without make-up. Men always made a bee-line for me.
I have never slept in a bed with anybody. Even when I was married we slept in separate beds.
My mother became a big problem... She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was tough to get out.
Colin Campbell should be thanking me for raising his profile. I'm the only one who's put the Colin Campbell name on the map. Who has even heard of Lord Colin Campbell?
My mother was a fun-lover. Everything had to be pleasure.
You don't lose the regard of not only a nation but of an international community and regain it overnight.
I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.
Overconfidence has never been my problem.
My IQ is 154. It was measured because my father was desperately hoping that they could determine if I had anything wrong psychologically so that I could be locked up the way one of his sisters had.
I was bought up as a boy. I don't blame my parents in the slightest since it was just an unfortunate timing in many ways, in other ways it was very fortunate. If I'd been born 20 years earlier, there wouldn't have been the surgical techniques to correct the deformity and by the time I was of an age, they did exist. I was very lucky.
All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.
I'm living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.
I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is and he's a gorgeous looking guy. It would be an obscenity for him even to look at me as anything else but a mother figure while of course it is perfectly OK for me to look at him as a man.
If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.
From when we were about seven we worked in our family store during the holidays. My father said it was important that we know where our money came from.
I could not have known Colin Campbell would turn out to be the debased, cruel monster he turned out to be.
I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.
When I was young and, supposedly so beautiful, I had a tsunami of men crashing in on me and some really, really nice guys wanted to marry me. But I only ever wanted to marry for love. And I did. And it worked... for the first 20 minutes.
In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.
Once you realise you're carrying around lots of pain, I think go to therapy so you release yourself. You don't want to be a problem bore, poor me.
I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.
My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.
I'm sorry if you're partly black you're partly black. You're not fully black.
My mother was a professional beauty. She played the vamp for all it was worth.
I'm really sorry, but I'm not prepared to jeopardize my life for the entertainment industry.
I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.
In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.
I've always been loving and outgoing, and wanted to be happy. Just because you're born disabled, it doesn't mean you have to end up having a terrible life. You make choices and you can choose to embrace life. Bloody hell, it's up to you!
Once you are born with a handicap, even if the handicap is resolved - as it was in my case - you are left with the benefit of having had it. By contrast, my mother - who had nothing bad happen to her - was a very disabled person. She was an appalling human being who squandered every blessing that God had given her.
I'm a kind person.
I lack nothing in my life.
My children come first, and always will.
There's something about me; even without make-up men always made a beeline for me.
I would go into the 'Big Brother' house for £5million. That is how much I would ask for if they want me.
I've become less tolerant as I've got older, but I put that down to realising there are people out there who actually enjoy being destructive, and that those people will never change.
I believe that narcissistic personality disorder is a middle- and upper-class disease because you have to have the means to indulge it; you need money and power. Narcissists create havoc around them. You can't get away with that doing a menial job.
The only old man I am interested in is one who is worth at least £300million and is 103. Obviously you don't want them to hang around too long, you want to be able to spend his money.
Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.
I will not put up with bullying and harassment - certainly not after the experiences I've had.
There is no cure for narcissistic personality disorder. If you have a relationship with someone who has it, there will be a certain level of pain built into it. I don't think you can have a close, loving relationship with a narcissist, and I don't think it's possible to be a true narcissist and be a good mother.
Honours can generate a lot of income for the nation because they are viewed as so prestigious internationally.
When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really had an aptitude for sewing - my mother taught me. I even learned to embroider when I was very young and I made the most fantastic dresses for my dolls. So I thought I could be a designer.
I think that we have strayed into very dangerous territory where people are not allowed to express a negative opinion.
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