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
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Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
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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.
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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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Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
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Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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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.
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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.
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As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?