Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British celebrity Cynthia Payne.
Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Cynthia Diane Payne was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was convicted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London.
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.
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
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.
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.
When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?
In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.