Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katharine Whitehorn
The best careers advice given to the young... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Katharine Whitehorn
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Katharine Whitehorn
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind...

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It's a pity, as my husband says, that more politicians are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

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The thing has been blown up out of all proportion. PC language is not enjoined on one and all – there are a lot more places where you can say 'spic' and 'bitch' with impunity than places where you can smoke a cigarette.

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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Katharine Whitehorn
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social centre, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Katharine Whitehorn
Outside every thin girl there is a fat man trying to get in.

Katharine Whitehorn
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director.

Katharine Whitehorn
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Katharine Whitehorn
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motives) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

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Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force…Except occasionally.

Katharine Whitehorn
A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis, only small and banal from the outside, but spacious and interesting from within.

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Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

Katharine Whitehorn
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Katharine Whitehorn
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Katharine Whitehorn
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Katharine Whitehorn
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

Katharine Whitehorn