Katharine Whitehorn quotes

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)
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
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
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
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 easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
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
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katharine Whitehorn
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katharine Whitehorn
The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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)
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.
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
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katharine Whitehorn
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
Katharine Whitehorn
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.
Katharine Whitehorn
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
Katharine Whitehorn
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. (Katharine Whitehorn)
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Katharine Whitehorn
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
Katharine Whitehorn
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
Katharine Whitehorn