Chaperone Quotes

“What," Pattern said with a hum, "is a chaperone?"
"That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don't do anything inappropriate."
"Inappropriate?" Pattern said. "Such as...dividing by zero?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You two need a chaperone up here?'

Yes. No. Yes. 'I thought you were the chaperone.'

Az threw him a wicked smile. 'I'm not entirely sure I'm enough.'

Cassian flipped him off.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Did something happen that I, as your chaperone, should know about?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“What about a chaperone?” he asked, though he was already guiding her to the side entrance of the ballroom.

Her smile turned wry. “Women my age don’t require chaperones, McKenna.”

He slid an unnervingly thorough glance over her. “You may need one yet.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“You’ll need a chaperone. I have no doubt that Great-Aunt Clara would stay at the terrace with you, or perhaps—”

“I’ll invite old Mrs. Smedley from the village,” Livia said. “She’s from a respectable family, and she would enjoy a trip to London.”

Aline frowned. “Dearest, Mrs. Smedley is hard of hearing, and as blind as a bat. A less effective chaperone I couldn’t imagine.”

“Precisely,” Livia said, with such satisfaction that Aline couldn’t help laughing.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“From that date she had had no other chaperone than Nurse, but, as she pointed out to Lady Denny, since she neither went into society nor received guests at Undershaw it was hard to see what use a chaperon would be to her.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“Turn a blind eye, chaperone.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“This was, however, 1915, and if the better classes clasped to themselves a semblance of the old order, it did little more than obscure the chaos beneath their feet. During the war the very fabric of English society was picked apart and rewoven. Necessity dictated that women work outside the home, be it on their own or that of their employers', and so women put on men's boots and took control of trams and breweries, factories and fields. Upper-class women signed on for long stretches nursing in the mud and gore of France or, for a lark, put on smocks and gaiters and became Land Girls during the harvest. The harsh demands of king and country and the constant anxieties over the fighting men reduced the rules of chaperonage to a minimum; people simply had no energy to spare for the proprieties.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice