Chaperon Quotes & Sayings

I'm impressed by your protectiveness over them, but I'm only asking for an introduction. Are they so fragile they need an old man as chaperon? Do they have no tongues? — Stephen Lloyd Jones

The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better, — Biz Stone

When people of similar frequencies come together, output is not a simple sum of individual work, but exponential. In science we term this phenomenon as resonance. Output at this stage is beyond any logical limit. — Ravindra Shukla

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight. — Merle Haggard

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. — Travis Tritt

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. — Mitch McConnell

I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home. — Paulette Goddard

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon. — Cassandra Clare

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. — Jane Austen

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads. — Lemony Snicket

I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young ... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them. — Margaret Mead

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon. — Douglas Adams

I only regret that it came too soon. I
I would have wanted to
to court your first. To take you driving, with a chaperon." (Jem)
"A chaperon?" (Tessa)
"To tell you my feelings first, before I showed them. To write poetry for you
" (Jem)
"You don't even like poetry," (Tessa)
"No. But you make me want to write it. Does that not count for anything?" (Jem) — Cassandra Clare

I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!"
"You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!"
"Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments! — Georgette Heyer

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing. — Richelle E. Goodrich