Katharine Whitehorn Quotes (10 Quotes)


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

    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.

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

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

    I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).


    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.

    The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

    Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their knees, the only ones allowed to wear dark trousers.

    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.

    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.


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