Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 895 |
| AUTHOR: | Mrs. Patrick (Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell) Campbell (1865–1940) |
| QUOTATION: | Does it really matter what these affectionate people do—so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to Various versions of the first clause occur in different sources. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 128 (1970), has “I don’t mind where people make love…” and Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 706, no. 16 (1982), “My dear, I don’t care what they do…” |
| SUBJECTS: | Impropriety |