85 Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

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

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

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 ...

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

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.