Quotes from Katharine Whitehorn

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

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

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

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

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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

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.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

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.

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.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

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

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.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

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.

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