"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough"
About this Quote
The second clause sharpens the blade: “who I could trust enough.” Keeler isn’t talking about butterflies or chemistry. She’s talking about risk management. Trust, in her life, wasn’t an abstract virtue; it was the difference between being protected and being exposed, between privacy and a headline, between agency and becoming a cautionary tale. The line quietly indicts the men and institutions that treated her as disposable while posturing as respectable.
Context makes the quote sting. Keeler became a symbol of moral panic during the Profumo affair, yet the moral failure was structural: a young woman scapegoated to preserve the dignity of powerful men and the state. When she says she never found anyone she could trust, it’s not self-mythologizing. It’s a grim tally of how often “respectability” turned out to be camouflage, and how loneliness can be the rational outcome of betrayal dressed up as glamour.
Quote Details
| Topic | Betrayal |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Keeler, Christine. (2026, January 17). I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-never-found-anyone-who-was-good-enough-who-i-47232/
Chicago Style
Keeler, Christine. "I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-never-found-anyone-who-was-good-enough-who-i-47232/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-never-found-anyone-who-was-good-enough-who-i-47232/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.









