Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

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

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

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

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

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

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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