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
bad bank impression instead ought people predict seeing time treat trying tuesday
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.
british-actor great less money people rule
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
girl boys people
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
love heart people
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
cheer people want
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
money people insightful
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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.
people use want
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.
people religion wish
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
british-actor defensive divide hats offensive three
Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
advice best career given pay
The best career advice given to the young is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
advice best career given pay
The best career advice given to the young is ""Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
american-coach thin trying
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
american-coach clothes taken
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?