Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn

About Katharine Whitehorn:

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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.'

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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.

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.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

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No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Author Bio

  • NameKatharine Whitehorn
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1928
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire