Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBEis a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
witty children zips
Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.
yield office done
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.
bores-you heaven hell
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
weed nature years
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.
girl men trying
As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
mother fate goes-on
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.
money youth young
Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.
mother men years
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).
friends habit found
Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.
past order office
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
weather long people
[On the English climate:] 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.
parent reason theater
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.
mother husband wish
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.
horse thinking age
[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.