Bound and be damned

Posted by Smokey Stover on March 29, 2006

In Reply to: Bound and be damned posted by m. Watts on March 29, 2006

: What is the origin of the phrase "bound and be damned".

I googled just "and be damned," pretty much knowing what I would get. And I did.

From quotationspage.com I got: "Publish and be damned!
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his letters." SS

• Bound and be damned Smokey Stover 29/March/06