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Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

1928–2021 England

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, writer, and columnist for the London Observer known for her wit and commentary on women in their times.

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Also known as: Katherine Whitehorn

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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Sunday Best (1976)

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

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.

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.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Column in The Observer (1977)

The best careers advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katharine Whitehorn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.