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
british-actor defensive divide hats offensive three
Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
blow wind intelligence
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ...
gowns awful comfort
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.
sore-throat good-listener talkers
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
weed next come-up
Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
smart book reading
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.
witty children zips
Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
airports littles misery
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 ...
smoking doe pounds
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.